Michigan City, Mississippi
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|subdivision_name1 = Mississippi
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|subdivision_name2 = Benton
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|timezone = Central (CST)
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|postal_code = 38647
|area_code = 662
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|blank_info = 693948{{GNIS|693948}}
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Michigan City, formerly known as Davis Mills, is an unincorporated community in Benton County, Mississippi, United States.
History
The majority of the first settlers being natives of the state of Michigan caused the name to be selected.{{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}} Michigan City was formerly home to a flour mill and lumber mill.{{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://archive.org/details/mississippicompr02rowl | volume = 2 | page = 232}}
A post office operated under the name Davis Mills from 1871 to 1875 and first began operation under the name Michigan City in 1875.{{cite web | url=https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MS&county=Benton&searchtext=&pagenum=1 | title=Benton County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=4 May 2020}}
Davis' Mills Battle Site, a Civil War battlefield listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Michigan City.{{cite web | title = Davis' Mills Battle Site | publisher = U.S. Department of the Interior | date = October 2, 1973 | url = http://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/nom/prop/3048.pdf}}
Geography
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It is located along Mississippi Highway 7 in north central Benton County, just south of the Tennessee state line, approximately three miles north of U. S. Route 72.
Mississippi Highway 702 is called Main Street in Michigan City.
The nearly abandoned Mississippi Central Railroad, which is used only rarely for freight traffic, runs through Michigan City.{{cite web |last1=Howe |first1=Tony |title=Michigan City, Mississippi |url=https://www.msrailroads.com/Towns/Michigan_City.htm |website=Mississippi Rails |accessdate=4 May 2020}}
References
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{{Benton County, Mississippi}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Mississippi
Category:Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
Category:Mississippi placenames of Native American origin
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