Okolona depot
Depot, Okolona, Mississippi.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Okolona, Mississippi
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
OKOLONA DEPOT
Depot on the Mobile and Ohio, which reached Okolona in 1859 and made it a center for ginning and shipping cotton in the Black Prairie, the Bread Basket of the Confederacy. Forrest defeated William Sooy Smith here in February 1864. The depot was burned during the war.
Then
Okolona and the Black Prairie around it were called the Bread Basket of the Confederacy. The Mobile and Ohio reached the town in 1859, making it a center for ginning and shipping cotton.
Five fights took place in and around Okolona, including Forrest's defeat of William Sooy Smith in February 1864. The depot and most commercial buildings were burned during the war.
Now
Built over
Few antebellum buildings survive; the 1850 Elliott-Donaldson House is on the National Register.
Lines owned by CPKC run through Okolona today.
Served by
Nearby
- 8 miGrierson wrecks the Mobile and Ohio at Egypt StationDecember 28, 1864, Egypt Station, Mississippi
- 35 miForrest routs the expedition sent to keep him off Sherman's railroadJune 10, 1864, Brice's Cross Roads, Mississippi
- 40 miColumbus arsenalConfederate · Arsenal, Columbus, Mississippi
- 66 miBeauregard abandons the Corinth rail junctionMay 30, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi
- 66 miHolly Springs supply depotUnion · Depot, Holly Springs, Mississippi
- 66 miRosecrans holds the Corinth junction against Van DornOctober 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi