Waverly, Mississippi

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Waverly, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Waverly
Coordinates: 33°34′03″N88°30′14″W / 33.56750°N 88.50389°W / 33.56750; -88.50389
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Clay
Elevation
184 ft (56 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 662
GNIS feature ID679395 [1]

Waverly (also Mullens Bluff, Waverley, Waverley Plantation) is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Mississippi, United States. [1] [2]

Waverly is located on the former Southern Railway. [3] Waverly was once home to a church, saw mill, and grist mill. [4] A ferry once operated in Waverly that was used to cross the Tombigbee River. [5]

A post office operated under the name Waverly from 1879 to 1906. [6]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "Waverly, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Mississippi Department of Transportation-Clay County
  3. ↑ Howe, Tony. "Waverly, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 942.
  5. ↑ Jack D. Elliott Jr.; Elizabeth A. Calvert; Rebecca M. Riley (August 3, 2015). West Point and Clay County. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. p. 15. ISBN   978-1-4396-5259-6.
  6. ↑ "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  7. ↑ Pate, James. "John Pitchlynn". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 29, 2023.


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