Bentonia, Mississippi

Yazoo County

Population:   in 1900

                     in 1910

                     in 1920

                     in 1940

                     in 1950

                     in 1960

Town incorporated:  3-14-1884

Post office:  2-1-1884 to present

Railroads: Y&MV- IC- ICG- IC- CN

 

Next Town North- Anding

 

Old Milepost 26.5

(from Jackson, MS)

New Milepost 193.5

(from Memphis, TN via Marks)

 

Next Town South- Ragin

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY -

 

 
 

 

Y&MV depot at Bentonia about 1982.

  

 
BUSINESSES (per R.G. Dun & Co.)- 

Bentonia Drug Co.- 1910

Fisher Bros. Lumber Co.- 1910

Gaddis-Whitehead Co.- cotton factors & general store 1910

R. Hancock- hotel 1910

L. H. Hilderbrand- general store 1910

Link-Newcomb Mill & Lumber Co.- mfgrs hardwood lbr 1910

E. S. Logan- general store 1910

C. M. Mansfield- general store 1910

R. W. Martin & Co.- general store 1910

J. B. Newman- livery 1910

W. J. Riordan (sp?)- general store 1910

D. Segal- general store 1910

Mrs. S. A. Sibley- general store 1910

H. L. Taylor- planter lumber & general store 1910

H. G. Terrell- general store 1910

 

  

 

  

 
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