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 | |
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  Cedarbluff  Cedarbluff | |
| Coordinates: 33°35′12″N 88°49′56″W / 33.58667°N 88.83222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Clay |
| Elevation | 266 ft (81 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 39741[1] |
| Area code | 662 |
| GNIS feature ID | 668181 |
History
editCedarbluff 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
edit- ^ "Cedarbluff ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Archived from the original on November 28, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ "Cedarbluff, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Howe, Tony. "Cedar Bluff, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Archived from the original on January 11, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
- ^ "Short Items for Busy Men". July 2, 1915. Archived from the original on December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
- ^ 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 April 29, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
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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