Hendersonville
Ghost town
Hendersonville is located in Mississippi
Hendersonville
Hendersonville
Coordinates: 33°56′15″N 89°43′43″W / 33.93750°N 89.72861°W / 33.93750; -89.72861
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyYalobusha
Elevation
467 ft (112 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID705923[1]

Hendersonville is an extinct town located in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.[1]

Once the largest town in Yalobusha County, the former settlement is today covered by forest.

History

John Henderson, a Presbyterian missionary and the town's namesake, settled in the area in 1798.[2]

In 1833, the Mississippi Legislature authorized the formation of 17 counties, including Yalobusha. Yalobusha County's first elected officials, called the "Board of Police", met in 1834 at Hendersonville. A county seat had not yet been selected, and the Board of Police solicited land donations. At the second meeting, a nearby location more centrally located in the county, later named Coffeeville, was selected for the county seat.[2][3] A local resident, Capt. L. Lake, wrote in 1834: "Hendersonville then went down and ultimately lost its name, being absorbed in a farm known as 'Oakchickamau,'" owned by Franklin E. Plummer.

An early resident of county named Mr. E. Percy Howe, appeared to dislike both Hendersonville and Coffeeville. He left a poem behind after moving away:

Upon a hill near Derden's Mill
There is a place called Coffeeville;
The meanest town I ever saw
Save Plummer's town, 'Oakchickamau.'[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hendersonville (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. 1 2 "Welcome to Yalobusha County!". Mississippi Genealogy & History Network.
  3. 1 2 Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 466.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.