The seat of justice of Union County is New Albany, which is located at the intersection of the Gulf & Chicago and Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railways, and has a population of eleven hundred and twenty-five.
It is the center of a growing local trade, and a shipping point of importance. Its schools and churches are numerous, and its business and professional men and citizens generally are of a class unusually intelligent, well educated and refined.
Wallerville, Ellistown, Blue Springs, Keownville, Baker, Ingomar, Rocky Ford and Myrtle are the other towns and trading points in Union county.
Back to: Mississippi Counties, Cities and Towns, 1891
Source: Biographical and Historical Memories of Mississippi, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891
Looking for O’CALLAGHAN/ /McWhiter/Pannell.
ALSO, does anyone know the history of Fairfield, Blue Springs rural route. Who settled named it and first settlers.
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Looking for a picture or more information on Robert Lee Carr born 09/13/1905 died 07/18/1939. Born in New Albany MS married to Mary Pittsinger. First child born 1929.