Historical Marker
McComb
McComb, Pike County · Mississippi
Erected 1952
Henry Simpson McComb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad moved the line's maintenance shops here in 1872, reportedly to keep the shopmen away from the bars of New Orleans, and three villages, Elizabethtown, Burglund and Harveytown, agreed to merge beside them. The shops made McComb a union town, and by 1900 Pike County paid the third-highest industrial wages in Mississippi. Rioting during the Illinois Central shopmen's strike that began September 30, 1911, injured many and killed at least three Black strikebreakers, and the militia came in.
Where it stands
31.24291, -90.45355 · Directions
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