Hendersonville, Mississippi
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
- ^ a b "Hendersonville (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b "Welcome to Yalobusha County!". Mississippi Genealogy & History Network.
- ^ a b 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.
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