Hopson, Mississippi

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|timezone = Central (CST)

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Hopson (also known as Hopson Plantation or Hopson Spur) is an unincorporated community located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, south of Clarksdale and U.S. Route 61 along U.S. Route 49. Hopson is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad.{{cite web |last1=Howe |first1=Tony |title=Hopson's Spur, Mississippi |url=https://www.msrailroads.com/Towns/Hopsons_Spur.htm |website=Mississippi Rails |accessdate=8 June 2020}} A post office operated under the name Hopson from 1857 to 1867.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MS&county=Coahoma&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Coahoma County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=8 June 2020}} In 1944 The Hopson Planting Company used International Harvester cotton pickers to harvest cotton, becoming the first farm to mechanically cultivate and produce an entire cotton crop.{{cite book|author1=Judith Coleman Flowers|author2=Carnegie Public Library|title=Clarksdale and Coahoma County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BYD8CwAAQBAJ|date=14 March 2016|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-5503-0}} The former Hopson Plantation Company Store is now operated as a restaurant and music venue.{{cite book|author=June Davis Davidson|title=Country Stores of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xhV3CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT107|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=978-1-62585-125-3|pages=107}}