Choctaw County Mississippi Ghost Towns

Choctaw County Mississippi

 

Known Ghost Towns

 

  Ashfordville
 
  Bankstown
  Bankston was located four miles northwest of Chester, it was founded in 1847, and named after an early settler by the name of Banks. A cotton and woolen goods textile mill was established here by Colonel James M. Wesson in 1848. The mill town of Bankston grew quickly to include a flour and gristmill, shoe factory, tannery, a machine shop and other businessess.

  By 1860 The Bankston Mill was one of the largest of four cotton mills in the state. The Bankston mill continued to flourish until 1864 when it was burned by the Union Calvary under the charge of
General Benjamin H. Grierson.


 

 

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