Mayhew, Mississippi

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Mayhew, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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The cemetery at the old Mayhew Mission site
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Mayhew
Mayhew (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°29′05″N88°38′04″W / 33.48472°N 88.63444°W / 33.48472; -88.63444 Coordinates: 33°29′05″N88°38′04″W / 33.48472°N 88.63444°W / 33.48472; -88.63444
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Lowndes
Elevation
207 ft (63 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 662
GNIS feature ID673265 [1]

Mayhew is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

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Mayhew is located west of Columbus, north of Artesia, east of Starkville and south of West Point. According to the United States Geological Survey, a variant name is Mayhew Station. [1]

History

In 1818, Mayhew Mission was established at Mayhew by Presbyterians from Massachusetts under Cyrus Kingsbury for the purpose of Christianizing and educating the Choctaw Indians. The community was named Mayhew in honor of another missionary family from Massachusetts. The population of Mayhew Mission quickly declined after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed and the Choctaw people were forced to relocate on the Trail of Tears. [2]

Mayhew Station was the original name given to the community when it was moved from its original site (near Muldrow, Mississippi) to alongside the tracks of the newly built Mobile and Ohio Railroad (later Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad) in the very early 1850s. The original location of the town of Mayhew is now referred to as Old Mayhew, but only a cemetery exists there today. In 1900, the population of Mayhew was 139. [3] Bees, lumber, and hay were shipped from Mayhew and the community also had a tannery. [4]

Mayhew is also referred to as Mayhew Junction, or more commonly as "The Crossroads" by area residents, a reference to when U.S. Route 82 and U.S. Route 45 crossed as at-grade two-lane highways. Before the construction of the new U.S. Route 82 and the expansion of U.S. Route 45 to four lanes, the intersection of the original highways was a four way stop. Several bars and service stations, catering to students from the nearby Mississippi State University, lined the four sides of the original intersection and were torn down when the new expressways were built over a period of several years between 1975 and 1995. [5]

The East Mississippi Community College Golden Triangle Campus is in Mayhew. [6]

A post office operated under the name Mayhew from 1833 to 1837, under the name Mayhews Station from 1856 to 1903, and again under the name Mayhew beginning in 1903. [7]

In 1960, seven black men from Little Rock, Arkansas used a restroom at Weaver's Amoco in Osborn, where there was only one restroom, which was for whites only. They were arrested in Mayhew and required to pay a $200 per person bond. According to the law, they faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail and fines of $500 each. The case was widely anticipated as the first test of the state's sit-in law, but was settled when the defendants unexpectedly pleaded guilty and paid a small fine in Starkville the next day. [8] [9]

Mayhew was once home to Stover Apiaries, the world's largest queen bee apiary, which shipped queen bees to beekeepers worldwide. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mayhew
  2. ↑ Swoope, Jan (11 May 2013). "A sacred space: Time-worn graves on a remote ridge remind of Indian heritage and church roots". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  3. ↑ 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. 183.
  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 11, 2023.
  5. ↑ Dispatch Editorial Team (20 September 2017). "Our View: Mayhew: From bees and beer to a center for education". The Commercial Dispatch . Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  6. ↑ "CATALOG 2007-2009 Archived December 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine ." East Mississippi Community College. 10 (10/147). Retrieved on March 1, 2011.
  7. ↑ Howe, Tony. "Mayhew, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Negro Group Enters White Cafe in State". Clarion-Ledger. April 23, 1960. Retrieved 23 December 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Sitdowners' Guilty Pleas Bring $15 fine". The Delta Democrat-Times. Greenville, Mississippi. Apr 24, 1960. Retrieved 23 December 2019– via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Watkins, Billy (March 28, 2010). "Bolton's 'Bee Man' ships his insects all around the world". GulfLive.com. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Beaumont Bonaparte Buck". The Hall of Valor Project. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  12. ↑ Mould, Tom (2004). Choctaw Tales. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. xliii. ISBN   1-57806-682-4.
  13. ↑ "Moon". Journal of the International Trumpet Guild. 12 (2): 26. 1987.
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