Norfield, Mississippi

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Norfield, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Illinois Central Railroad depot in Norfield
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Coordinates: 31°24′28″N90°28′02″W / 31.40778°N 90.46722°W / 31.40778; -90.46722
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Lincoln
Elevation
407 ft (124 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 601 & 769
GNIS feature ID674932 [1]

Norfield is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States. [1] [2]

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History

The community was founded in 1886 as a sawmill town. [3] Norfield's name is a portmanteau of the surnames of Frederick Norwood and John S. Butterfield, who founded the Norwood-Butterfield Lumber Company. [4] The sawmill in Norfield was the first sawmill in the southern United States to use a bandsaw to cut yellow pine. [5] In 1900, the community had a population of 347 and was estimated to have a population of 700 six years later. [6] By 1930, the community had the second-largest population in Lincoln County and had a theater, hotel, and golf course. [4]

Norfield is located on the Canadian National Railway. [7] The Norwood-Butterfield Company operated the Natchez, Columbia & Mobile Railroad, a standard gauge logging railroad that ran 30 miles east from Norfield. The railroad operated six locomotives. [8]

A post office operated under the name Norfield from 1891 to 1953. [9]

Notable people

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Norfield, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Mississippi Department of Transportation-Lincoln County
  3. ↑ Campbell, Brett (April 26, 2021). "Norfield historical marker approved". The Daily Leader. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Norfield". hmdb.org. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Perfection in the Manufacture of Mississippi Longleaf Pine". American Lumberman (1665): 44. April 20, 1907.
  6. ↑ 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. 345.
  7. ↑ Howe, Tony. "Norfield, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  8. ↑ Howe, Tony. "Norwood & Butterfield Co. (1891-1900)". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Lincoln County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  10. ↑ Komara, Edward; Johnson, Greg (2014). 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN   978-0-8108-8921-7.
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