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Tupelo (Paperback)
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Tupelo (Paperback)
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
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By 1858, construction on a new railroad from Mobile, Alabama, to
Cairo, Illinois, had intersected the Fulton/Pontotoc Road near an
area called Gum Pond. That location contained large numbers of
tupelo gum trees, and the intersection became known as Tupelo. Many
merchants in surrounding communities, like Harrisburg and Richmond,
realized that the intersection was going to be a prime area for
commerce and began disassembling buildings that housed places of
business and relocating them to Tupelo. By the beginning of the
Civil War, there were two stores, two hotels, two saloons, and a
temporary depot fronting the railroad just south of present-day
Main Street. During the Civil War, Tupelo became a major location
for shipping grain and livestock to the Confederate army. It also
served as headquarters for the Confederate Army of the West and a
rest and recreation area for Confederate armies.
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