Algoma, Mississippi

Pontotoc County

Population: 1910- 152

                    1920- 202

Town incorporated:  

Post office: 1-15-1874 to 11-28-1876

                    4-21-1879 to present

Railroads: MJ&KC- NOM&C- GM&N- GM&O

Next Town North- Gray

 

Milepost 299.8 in 1905

Milepost 301.20 on valuation map

(from Mobile)

 

Next Town South- Wallfield

1906 soil survey map

1972 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY (per Dun & Bradstreet)-

MJ&KC depot at Algoma about 1906. 

1917 GM&N Track Chart & Profile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

J. F. Haney, general store 1900

S. K. Haney (near), general store 1900

J. H. Holland, general store 1900

Abernathy & Holland- drugs 1910

C. P. Owes- general store 1910

W. H. Thomas- general store 1910

W. F. Walker- general store 1910

M. F. (Mrs. W. W.) Wood- general store 1910

 

 

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