Cedarbluff, Mississippi

Cedarbluff (or Cedar Bluff) is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Mississippi, United States.[2] It is located in south central Clay County along Mississippi Highway 50.

Cedarbluff, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Cedarbluff is located in Mississippi
Cedarbluff
Cedarbluff
Cedarbluff is located in the United States
Cedarbluff
Cedarbluff
Coordinates: 33°35′12″N 88°49′56″W
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyClay
Elevation
266 ft (81 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
39741[1]
Area code662
GNIS feature ID668181

History

Cedarbluff is located on the former Southern Railway.[3] Cedarbluff was formerly home to a school and two churches.[4]

A post office operated under the name Cedar Bluff from 1847 to 1895 and began operating under the name Cedarbluff in 1895.[5]

In 1915 an unnamed black man was lynched in Cedarbluff for allegedly entering the room of a white woman.[6] In 1916, an African-American man, Jeff Brown was lynched by a mob "for accidentally bumping into a white girl as he ran to catch a train." Pictures of his lynching were sold to white citizens for five cents each and were used to intimidate African-Americans in the region.[7] In 1920, a destructive tornado struck Cedarbluff directly causing major damage.

References
  1. "Cedarbluff ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Archived from the original on November 28, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  2. "Cedarbluff, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. Howe, Tony. "Cedar Bluff, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  4. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 381.
  5. "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  6. "Short Items for Busy Men". 2 July 1915. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  7. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror: Second Edition: Report Summary (PDF). Montgomery, Alabama: Equal Justice Initiative. 2015. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2017-05-16. White men lynched Jeff Brown in 1916 in Cedarbluff, Mississippi, for accidentally bumping into a white girl as he ran to catch a train.


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