*Bigbee Valley*Brooksville
*Cliftonville
*Deerbrook
*Lynncreek, a post-hamlet in the northwestern part of Noxubee county, situated on the creek of the same name, about 15 miles northwest of Macon, the county seat. Brookville, 8 miles to the east on the Mobile & Ohio R. R., is the nearest banking and railroad town. Population in 1900, 57.
*Macedonia, a postoffice of Noxubee county, 8 miles southwest of Macon, the county seat.
Macon
*Summerville institute, in Noxubee county, which was at that time one of the leading educational institutions of the state. Here he was a member of the junior class of 1867. During the latter portion
*Paulette, a post-hamlet of Noxubee county, about 10 miles southeast of Macon, the county seat. Shuqualak is the nearest railroad and banking town. Population in 1900, 72.
*Prairie Point, a post-hamlet of Noxubee county, 10 miles east of Macon, the county seat and nearest railroad and banking town. Population in 1900, 75.
*Pretoria, a postoffice located in the northeastern prairie region of Noxubee county, 10 miles east of Brookville, the nearest railroad and banking station. Population in 1900, 16.
Ravine, a postoffice in the northeastern part of Noxubee county, about 14 miles distant from Macon, the county seat and nearest railroad and banking town.
*Shubuta, an incorporated post-town in 1906 in the southern part of Clarke county, on the Chickasawhay river, and a station on the Mobile & Ohio R. R., 39 miles south of Meridian. It has telegraph, express and banking facilities. The Bank of Shubuta was established here in 1902 with a capital of $25,000. A Democratic weekly newspaper, the Mississippi Messenger, established in 1879, is published here by C. A. Stovall. It is an important cotton shipping point, and also ships wool and naval stores. It has a money order postoffice, and a high school. There is a large saw milling plant, a large oil and fertilizer plant and a cross-arm plant. The town was growing and had a population in 1906 of 750.
*Shuqualak , an incorporated post-town in the southern part of Noxubee county, on the Mobile & Ohio R. R., 10 miles south of Macon, and 53 miles north of Meridian. It has telegraph, express and banking facilities, a water works system, and a good school. Cotton is the chief crop of the surrounding region, and a large amount of that staple is shipped from this point. The Bank of Shuqualak was established in 1900 with a capital of $15,000. It supports a Democratic weekly paper, the New Era, established in 1898, E. B. Hamilton editor and publisher. The population of the town in 1900 was 600, which had increased to at least 800 in 1906
*Encyclopedia of Mississippi History: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions and Persons
By Dunbar Rowland
Published by S. A. Brant, 1907
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