McCrary, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
McCrary is located in Mississippi
McCrary
McCrary
Location within the state of Mississippi
McCrary is located in the United States
McCrary
McCrary
McCrary (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°27′50″N 88°17′01″W / 33.46389°N 88.28361°W / 33.46389; -88.28361
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyLowndes
Elevation
276 ft (84 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code662
GNIS feature ID673319[1]

McCrary is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. McCrary is located southeast of Columbus and northeast of New Hope on the Mississippi/Alabama state line.[1]

McCrary is located on the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad and had a freight and passenger station.[2][3] The community was once home to a cotton gin and sawmill.[4]

A post office operated under the name McCrary from 1898 to 1910.[5]

Roland McMillan Harper passed through McCrary while documenting the plant life of Mississippi.[6]

It has been postulated that Hernando de Soto crossed into Mississippi from Alabama at McCrary.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McCrary
  2. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 186.
  3. ↑ Fourteenth Bienniel Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Mississippi for the Two Years Ending June 30, 1913. Nashville, Tennessee: Brandon Printing Company. 1913. p. 68.
  4. ↑ "Phase I Historic Resources Survey Along Luxapalila Creek, And At The Remains Of A Historic Mill (22L0948), Lowndes County, Mississippi" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Lowndes County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ Harper, Roland M. (1913). Morris, Edward Lyman (ed.). "A botanical cross-section of northern Mississippi, with notes on the influence of soil on vegetation". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 40: 379.
  7. ↑ Seventeenth Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office. 1915. p. 90.


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