McCrary, Mississippi

McCrary, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
McCrary is located in Mississippi
McCrary
McCrary
Location within the state of Mississippi
McCrary is located in the United States
McCrary
McCrary
McCrary (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°27′50″N 88°17′01″W / 33.46389°N 88.28361°W / 33.46389; -88.28361
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyLowndes
Elevation
276 ft (84 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code662
GNIS feature ID673319[1]

McCrary is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. McCrary is located southeast of Columbus and northeast of New Hope on the Mississippi/Alabama state line.[1]

McCrary is located on the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad and had a freight and passenger station.[2][3] The community was once home to a cotton gin and sawmill.[4]

A post office operated under the name McCrary from 1898 to 1910.[5]

Roland McMillan Harper passed through McCrary while documenting the plant life of Mississippi.[6]

It has been postulated that Hernando de Soto crossed into Mississippi from Alabama at McCrary.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McCrary
  2. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 186.
  3. ^ Fourteenth Bienniel Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi for the Two Years Ending June 30, 1913. Nashville, Tennessee: Brandon Printing Company. 1913. p. 68.
  4. ^ "Phase I Historic Resources Survey Along Luxapalila Creek, And At The Remains Of A Historic Mill (22L0948), Lowndes County, Mississippi" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  5. ^ "Lowndes County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  6. ^ Harper, Roland M. (1913). Morris, Edward Lyman (ed.). "A botanical cross-section of northern Mississippi, with notes on the influence of soil on vegetation". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 40: 379.
  7. ^ Seventeenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 90.


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