Historical Marker
Eupora
Eupora, Webster County · Mississippi
Erected 1951
Eupora was laid out in 1889 on a spur of the Georgia Pacific Railway. Farming had developed in the area well before the railroad reached the county, but the line brought trade and new businesses in the town's first decades, and Eupora is now the largest city in Webster County. In 1904 a white mob of about 200 seized Bud Simpson, a Black man accused of assault and never tried, hanged him from a tree and then shot him.
Where it stands
33.54070, -89.26885 · Directions
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