Booneville

The ground under Booneville was sold by a Chickasaw man named Le-Ho-Yea to three buyers, B.B. Boone, G.W. Williams and W.P. Curlee. The town is named for Colonel Reuben Holman Boone, a relative of Daniel Boone. The dates depend on what is counted: the Mobile and Ohio Railroad planned a line here in 1848, settlers arrived in 1858, and the town was incorporated in 1861, just as the Civil War began. It later became the seat of Prentiss County, one of three counties cut from the old Tishomingo.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site — 15 mi
  The crossroads where Nathan Bedford Forrest routed a larger Union force in June 1864, and where Black regiments, many raised at Corinth, held the bridge that let most of the army escape.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 19 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 19 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Tishomingo State Park — 21 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.

More markers nearby

• Booneville Armory — 0.3 mi
• Council of War — 1.0 mi
• Capture of Booneville — 1.0 mi
• Battle of Booneville — 1.7 mi