Carthage, MS news and local guide

In 1914 the Merrill Brothers Logging Company built a logging railroad from Canton through Carthage, taken over in 1927 by the Canton and Carthage Railroad, and that year the Daily Clarion-Ledger praised the town's progress: it had schools, churches, an ice plant, two banks, a Masonic hall and a Coca-Cola bottling plant. The present courthouse, designed by E. L. Malvaney, was finished in 1939, and the railroad was abandoned in 1960. In 1964 Carthage passed 2,000 people and became a city. That year a group called Americans for the Preservation of the White Race organized a boycott of white businesses complying with the Civil Rights Act, and in 1967 shots were fired into the home of an NAACP worker. The town's poultry plant, bought by Tyson Foods in 2003, is described as the largest chicken processing plant in the world, and its workforce drew many Hispanic families to Carthage. Sources Wikipedia: Carthage, Mississippi