Yale, Mississippi

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Yale, Mississippi
Ghost town
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Yale
Coordinates: 34°19′00″N88°13′45″W / 34.31667°N 88.22917°W / 34.31667; -88.22917
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Itawamba
Elevation
538 ft (164 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID706283 [1]

Yale is a ghost town in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States. [1]

Yale was located five miles north of Tremont and one mile west of State Highway 23N.

The population was 21 in 1900. [2]

A post office operated under the name Yale from 1891 to 1907. [3]

A private academy, the Oakland Normal Institute, was located at Yale and provided a classical education in art and Latin, as well as education and business courses. [4] The school was established in 1887, and remained open until 1904, when it became a county school. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yale, Mississippi
  2. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (3 vols.) Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing Association, 1907. Vol. 2, p. 994
  3. ↑ "Itawamba County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Oakland Normal Institute Graduation Program: 1895". Itawamba Historical Society. March 8, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Oakland Normal Institute". Itwamba County. August 23, 2012. Retrieved March 18, 2014.


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