Historical Marker
Winchester
Waynesboro, Wayne County · Mississippi
Erected 1949
Winchester had twenty to thirty businesses, and one account called it a center of political influence second only to Natchez. A pine-lumber courthouse went up in 1822. By the early 1840s a writer found the town literally tumbling to pieces, and writers blamed the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which drew people north, along with the lack of a hotel. When the Mobile and Ohio Railroad passed north of town in the 1850s, people moved to a new settlement by the tracks. By 1902 the old courthouse stood unoccupied, and Old Winchester is now forest.
Where it stands
31.62579, -88.58795 · Directions
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