Noxubee County Mississippi
Boundstown59
Sometime in the early 30's Mr. Jesse Bounds settled in the
southeastern part of Noxubee County on the Noxubee River. Others
soon joined him and the settlement grew into a country village.
It was named Boundstown in honor of the first settler, though it
was familiarly called "Bouncetown." Mr. Bounds soon moved into
the lower part of Kemper county. The town had an uncertain
existence for only a few years. In writing of this place Miss
Welsh says: "It was never noted for anything except rowdyism,
and that will not look well on record. The only citizen whose
name I recall was a Mr. Stevens, familiarly called 'Uncle
Billy.' Its death may be attributed to the fact that there was
no necessity for its existence, especially as it was soon
overwhelmed by a neighboring town, Brooklyn."
Brooklyn Acting on a firm belief that Noxubee
River would prove to be navigable for steamboats, the Loomis
Brothers removed their business from Wahalak in Kemper County to
a place on that stream, three or four miles south of Boundstown,
and eight miles east of the present town of Shuqualak. At this
new site they projected a town, which they called Brooklyn.
Another merchant, Hinzey Walker, also engaged in business at
this place. In a few years the Loomis Brothers sustained a heavy
loss by fire. The hope that the Noxubee would prove navigable
for steamboats having been dispelled in the meantime by actual
experiment, the original projectors of this village returned to
their homes in the North. The town, after a struggling
existence, perhaps down to the outbreak of the War Between the
States, finally died.
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Footnotes:
59. The writer
acknowledges with pleasure the valuable information he has
received from Miss Mary J. Welsh, of Shuqualak, Mississippi, on
the extinct towns along the Noxubee River.
Source: The Mississippi Historical
Commission Publications, Volume V, Edited by Franklin L. Riley,
Secretary, 1902.
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