Historical Marker
Norfield
Norfield, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected 2021
Norfield began in 1886 as a sawmill town, and its name joins the surnames of Frederick Norwood and John S. Butterfield, founders of the Norwood-Butterfield Lumber Company. The mill was the first in the southern United States to cut yellow pine with a bandsaw. The company also ran its own railroad, the Natchez, Columbia and Mobile, a standard-gauge logging line that reached 30 miles east of town with six locomotives. By 1930 it was the second-largest town in Lincoln County, with a theater, a hotel and a golf course. Pianist Little Brother Montgomery lived here as a young man.
Where it stands
31.40774, -90.46708 · Directions
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