Cedarbluff, Mississippi

Cedarbluff (or Cedar Bluff) is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Mississippi, United States.[1] It is located in south central Clay County along Mississippi Highway 50.

Cedarbluff, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 33°35′12″N 88°49′56″W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Clay
Elevation	266 ft (81 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	662
GNIS feature ID	668181

History

Cedarbluff is located on the former Southern Railway.[2] Cedarbluff was formerly home to a school and two churches.[3]

A post office operated under the name Cedar Bluff from 1847 to 1895 and began operating under the name Cedarbluff in 1895.[4]

In 1915 an unnamed black man was lynched in Cedarbluff for allegedly entering the room of a white woman.[5] In 1916, an African-American man, Jeff Brown was lynched by a mob "for accidentally bumping into a white girl as he ran to catch a train." Pictures of his lynching were sold to white citizens for five cents each and were used to intimidate African-Americans in the region.[6]

References

1. "Cedarbluff, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
2. Howe, Tony. "Cedar Bluff, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
3. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 381.
4. "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
5. "Short Items for Busy Men". 2 July 1915. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
6. Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror: Second Edition: Report Summary (PDF). Montgomery, Alabama: Equal Justice Initiative. 2015. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2017-05-16. White men lynched Jeff Brown in 1916 in Cedarbluff, Mississippi, for accidentally bumping into a white girl as he ran to catch a train.