1900s, Photo Search
The Shoffners were wealthy landowners in the southern Jackson County town that bore their name. Here, the patriarch seems to be supervising a goat-cart race among his sons or grandsons. The lovely two-story home with much attention to architectural detail shows...
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...
1890s, Photo Search
Berry J. Best ran a thriving wagon yard and livery stable at the turn of the 20th Century. Here, he bought and sold horses, mules, built and repaired wagons, and sold feed for livestock, which were crucial to one of the major forms of transportation at the time....
