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Scooba, Mississippi. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Kemper. Associated ZIP codes: 39358.
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Scooba is in Kemper County, Mississippi.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s election as the state’s first Black governor marks a historic milestone for Nevada and for a large part of the count...
Many voters in Mississippi's close Senate race said they were caught by surprise when they learned they would have to vote by affidavit because their registr...
With 99% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, DeSoto County went blue, backing Democrat nominee Scott Colom over incumbent Republican Senator Cind...
Scooba, in Kemper County, takes its name from a Choctaw word meaning "reed brake," and the early settlement was known for its productive farmland. The first permanent settlement came in the 1830s, and a post office named Scoober opened on March 9, 1836. The Old Scooba Cemetery was part of William Cannon's plantation and was set aside before 1839.
By August 1856 the Mobile and Ohio Railroad had built through Scooba, and a station had opened by December 13, 1858, along with a new post office. A Democratic weekly, The Kemper Herald, was founded here in 1876. By the early 1900s Scooba had a hotel, a livery barn, two sawmills, a cotton gin, a general store, five churches, a school and the Bank of Kemper, founded in 1904, and it served as a local cotton market. In late December 1906, after confrontations between Black passengers and conductors on the railroad, white mobs attacked Black residents at Scooba and nearby Wahalak. Sources differ on the toll: by one account 12 Black people and two white people were killed by December 26, and by another, 13 Black people had been killed by December 27. The sheriff called in the state militia, and national newspapers covered the violence. Sources Wikipedia: Scooba, Mississippi Wikipedia: Kemper County, Mississippi The Historical Marker Database: Old Scooba Cemetery
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