Hendersonville, Mississippi

Hendersonville
Ghost town
Hendersonville
Coordinates: 33°56′15″N 89°43′43″W / 33.93750°N 89.72861°WCoordinates: 33°56′15″N 89°43′43″W / 33.93750°N 89.72861°W
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Yalobusha
Elevation 467 ft (112 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
GNIS feature ID 705923[1]

Hendersonville is a ghost 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, 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Hendersonville (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Welcome to Yalobusha County!". Mississippi Genealogy & History Network. Retrieved April 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 466.