Mashulaville, Mississippi
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Mississippi, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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Major highways
- 20px Mississippi Highway 490
- 20px Mississippi Highway 14 MS 14 is The East end Of MS 490
MS 490 Has an intersection with MS 397
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Mashulaville is an unincorporated community in Noxubee County, Mississippi, in the United States.{{GNIS|673218}}
History
Mashulaville was named for Mushulatubbee, chief of the Choctaw.{{cite book|last=Baca|first=Keith A.|title=Native American Place Names in Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgNgEVvsaZcC&pg=PA54|year=2007|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-483-6|page=54}}
The community is located on Hashuqua Creek and in 1900 had a population of 125. It was once home to three churches, two stores, a saw mill, and cotton gin.{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://ia801201.us.archive.org/20/items/mississippicompr02rowl/mississippicompr02rowl.pdf | volume = 2 | page = 175}}
A post office operated under the name Mashulaville from 1838 to 1960.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MS&county=Noxubee&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Noxubee County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=18 January 2024}}
In the 1960s, Mennonites settled in Mashulaville after founding a mission to the Choctaw. The Mennonites operate the Mashulaville Dormitory, which is housed in the former Noxubee County Agricultural High School. The dormitory provides housing for mission work and serves as a location for community programs.{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://www.mashulaville.org/ourstory |website=mashulaville.org |access-date=19 January 2024}}
The Mashulaville Baptist Church is one of the oldest Baptist church structures in Mississippi.{{cite book |last1=Chiat |first1=Marilyn J. |title=America's Religious Architecture: Sacred Places for Every Community |date=1997 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |isbn=0-471-14502-5 |page=283 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0GviYfRKOsC}}
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed near Mashulaville.{{cite news |last1=Ladd |first1=Donna |title=White Flight in Noxubee County: Why School Integration Never Happened |url=https://www.mississippifreepress.org/16642/white-flight-in-noxubee-county-why-school-integration-never-happened |access-date=19 January 2024 |work=Mississippi Free Press |date=October 29, 2021}}
Notable person
William Jernagin, an African-American civil rights activist, was born at Mashulaville in 1869.{{cite book|last=Jones |first=Ida E.|title=William Henry Jernagin in Washington,: Faith in the Fight for Civil Rights|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cSsqDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=6 June 2016|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Incorporated|isbn=978-1-62585-686-9|page=24}}
References
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{{Noxubee County, Mississippi}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Noxubee County, Mississippi