1900’s – Main Street in Tupelo

1900’s – Main Street in Tupelo

1900s, Photo Search

These men and boys are pictured here on Main Street in Tupelo, in southern Jackson County, next to an unloaded wagon that carried watermelons.  Stacked next to the railroad tracks, the melons were obviously intended for shipment to market.  The notation on the back...
1906 – Sigma Chi Party

1906 – Sigma Chi Party

1900s, Photo Search

A 1906 Sigma Chi party almost ended in disaster when the boat hit a snag, throwing the two young ladies on the roof, Irma Hooker and Jamie Irby, into the river.  The newspaper account notes, “Nearly all the young men went to the rescue” and “the...
1906 – Sigma Chi Party

1900’s – Cotton Train

1900s, Photo Search

This postcard shows a trainload of cotton being readied to ship out of Newport.  The railroads would soon surpass the steamboats as carriers of the area’s farm crops, and the age of the steamboat on the South’s inland waterways would be gone with the wind....
1904 – Steamer General Joe Wheeler

1904 – Steamer General Joe Wheeler

1900s, Photo Search

The steamer General Joe Wheeler ran on the White and Black Rivers and is shown at Newport in 1904, loaded with 500 bales of cotton.  Built in 1899, the boat was owned by Capt. W.A. “Billy” Joyce and Capt. Tom Stallings of Newport when this photograph was...
1903 – Steamboat Grand

1903 – Steamboat Grand

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The steamboat Grand docks at either Jacksonport or Newport about 1903.  It seems to be coming upriver since the deck is loaded with boxes and buckets instead of bales of cotton.  The containers are most likely filled with salt, sugar, coffee, and even oysters, and the...