Conerly's P. O. and Lampton's Store

The place began as the Magee Settlement, taken up in 1816 by Magee and Thornhill families from South Carolina on land Native people had been pushed off. Cullen Conerly bought Garland Hart's store and set up a post office that took his name, and for more than half a century the store and post office were the community's social center. The town was Conerly's until 1879, Tyler Town for William G. Tyler after that, and one word, Tylertown, from 1894. Conerly sold the business to his brother-in-law, Benjamin Lampton, who built the town's mercantile trade.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• John Ford Home — 22 mi
  A frontier house on the Pearl River where the 1816 Pearl River Convention met, kept by the Marion County Historical Society and open to the public since 1963.

More markers nearby

• Walthall County Courthouse and Jail — steps away
• Walthall County Training School — 3.4 mi
• Holmesville — 11 mi
• Creation of Pike County — 12 mi