Wayside, Mississippi

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Wayside, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Wayside, Mississippi
Coordinates: Mississippi#USA 33°16′08″N91°02′01″W / 33.26889°N 91.03361°W / 33.26889; -91.03361 Coordinates: Mississippi#USA 33°16′08″N91°02′01″W / 33.26889°N 91.03361°W / 33.26889; -91.03361
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Washington
Elevation
121 ft (37 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
38780
Area code(s) 662
GNIS feature ID679401 [1]

Wayside is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. [1]

The settlement has a post office and water tower. Wayside is located on Mississippi Highway 1 approximately 8 mi (13 km) south of Greenville. [2]

History

The Belmont Plantation was located in Wayside. The plantation home was completed in 1859, [3] and has been described as "one of the few antebellum homes in the region not burned by rampaging Union soldiers". [4] The extant home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [5]

Wayside was originally located directly on the Mississippi River at the eastern end of "American Bend", and the early settlement had a steamboat landing. The river changed course following a flood in 1858, cutting off the bend and creating an oxbow lake now called Lake Lee. [6] [7]

A branch of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway, completed in the late 1880s, passed through Wayside. [3]

In 1900, the population was 65. [8]

On October 9, 2009, a tornado destroyed three mobile homes, damaged 16 houses and knocked down trees. A fatality occurred in a mobile home, and two others were injured.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Wayside". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ "Wayside Post Office". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  3. 1 2 Hall, Russell S.; Nowell, Princella W.; Childress, Stacy (2000). Washington County, Mississippi. Arcadia. pp. 21, 46. ISBN   9780738506555.
  4. ↑ The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta. Pelican. 2005. p. 54. ISBN   9781455608249.
  5. ↑ "Belmont". National Park Service. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Halloran, Mary Helen Griffin (2009). A Mississippi Family: The Griffins of Magnolia Terrace, Griffin's Refuge, and Greenville 1800-1950. iUniverse. p. 98. ISBN   9781440142246.
  7. ↑ Bragg, Marion (1977). Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River (PDF). Mississippi River Commission. pp. 135, 136.
  8. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 945.
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