McCrary is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Lowndes County,
Mississippi
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.
McCrary is located southeast of
Columbus and northeast of
New Hope on the Mississippi/Alabama state line.
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McCrary is located on the former ]Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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and had a freight and passenger station. The community was once home to a cotton gin and sawmill.
A post office operated under the name McCrary from 1898 to 1910.
Roland McMillan Harper passed through McCrary while documenting the plant life of Mississippi.
It has been postulated that Hernando de Soto
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crossed into Mississippi from Alabama at McCrary.
References
Unincorporated communities in Lowndes County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
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