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SPRING VALLEY

WEBSTER COUNTY MS

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ONE OF THE ERLIEST SETTLEMENTS WAS SPRING VALLEY LOCATED CLOSE TO MATHISTON MS.  SPRING VALLEY HAD  NUMBEROUS NATURAL SPRINGS AND WAS ONCED CALLED COLFAX BUT LATER RENAMED SPRING VALLEY DUE TO A LONG TIME RESISDENT MR. VALLEY.  VALLEY WAS TAKEN FROM MR. VALLEY AND SPRING DUE TO THE VAST NATURAL SPRINGS.   THE FIST SETTLERS WERE GRIFFIN, GREER, VALLEY, MCBRIDE, AND SISK. LATER FAMILIES WERE HOLLAND, PATTERSON, PIERCE, SISSON, NORWOOD, FISHER , BUTT AND MERIDETH.

THE FIRST CITIZENS ORGAIZED A STOCK BOARD AND BUILT THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE COUNTY.

DOCTORS WERE TOM GREER, DR HURFF, DR T.H. RANDALL AND A.J. HILL. STORES AND INDUSTRIES LOCATED IN THE ONCE THRIVING COMMUNITY WAAS A DRUG STORE OWNED BY DR. TOM GREER, 2 MERCHANTILES STORES, COTTON GIN, BLACKSMITH SHOP, WOOD SHOP, SALOON, 2 GRIST MILLS, PLANING MILL, STAGECOACH DEPOT, AND A TRADING POST. THERE WERE TWO CHURCHES A METHODIST AND BAPTIST. A POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1875 WITH D.F. HOLLAND AS ITS FIRST POSTMASTER. IT CLOSED IN 1890. SPRING VALLEY BEGAN TO DECLINE AFTER THE GEORGIA PACIFIC RAILROAD WAS BUILT IN 1889 2 MILES SOUTH OF THE TOWN. ALOT OF THE PEOPLE AND BUSINESS RELOCATED TO MATHISTON TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE RAILROAD.