Brownfield is located in North Tippah about 3 miles north of Walnut near the Tennessee line. Originally called "Gatlin's Crossing' the name was changed after the railroad was built.  Mr. William H. Brown had a large farm northeast of the present community that had a general store and grismill located there.  Trains would stop there and they referred to the stop as "Brown's Field", and the name changed to Brownfield shortly after.   The town is now extinct but during the first half of the last century had a cotton gin, a doctors office, a dentist office, a general merchandise store, a grocery store, a school and a Methodist church. 
    Today, Brownfield  is a small community boasting a population of 40 folks, it still has a Methodist Church, a Baptist Church and a shoe repair shop.  Most of the homes built in the 19th century have either been torn down or burned.  The stores closed and the merchants either died or moved away.  Brownfield school closed in 1950, when they consolidated and moved the students to Chalybeate.  The rock school house that was used from 1937 til it's closing, still stands and is now a private residence.
    Some of the original families were Bell, Braddock, Brock, Brown, Burns, Clark, Cox, Gatlin, Glover, Ford, Hopkins, Hudson, Malone, Roten, Spencer, and Voyles.