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Lincoln County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1870formed
34,907pop. 2020
39cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Brookhaven, Bogue Chitto.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Mississippi is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lincoln titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

13 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alexander Teen CenterBrookhavenBuilding2009
Brookhaven City HallBrookhavenBuilding1983
Brookhaven Manufacturing CorporationBrookhavenBuilding2021
Building at 306 South Jackson StreetBrookhavenBuilding1980
Cohn, Emile, HouseBrookhavenBuilding2011
Downtown Brookhaven Historic DistrictBrookhavenDistrict1999
First Methodist ChurchBrookhavenBuilding1997
Foxx-Cox HouseBogue ChittoBuilding1998
Hardy, Capt. Jack C., HouseBrookhavenBuilding2007
Hartman Funeral HomeBrookhavenBuilding2024
Inez HotelBrookhavenBuilding1988
Moreton Jr., A.E., HouseBrookhavenBuilding1999
Moreton, Robert D., HouseBrookhavenBuilding1995
Paxton HouseBrookhavenBuilding1997
Scherck, R. T., HouseBrookhavenBuilding1992
US Post OfficeBrookhavenBuilding1983
Union StationBrookhavenBuilding1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lincoln was formed in 1870 (1870-04-07) from Amite, Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Pike.

LINCOLN created from AMITE, COPIAH, FRANKLIN, LAWRENCE, and PIKE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lincoln County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

35k23k10k1870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
10,18413,54721,55224,65227,50627,89926,75930,17433,16634,907

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

39 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 39 of 39 listed
NameLatLon
Ben Salem Cemetery31.67349-90.66093
Brister Cemetery31.47711-90.36731
Brister Cemetery31.44128-90.38314
Brookhaven Memorial Gardens31.62405-90.43953
Burns Cemetery31.51906-90.45259
Calcote Cemetery31.541-90.62537
Dickerson Cemetery31.36184-90.46592
Dunn Cemetery31.51711-90.46398
Easthaven Cemetery31.57628-90.42732
Godman Cemetery31.58378-90.48398
Harris Rawls Cemetery31.4703-90.48565
Kees Cemetery31.56294-90.31064
Little Bahala Cemetery31.68849-90.2962
Little Memorial Cemetery31.66377-90.37009
Macedonia Cemetery31.58088-90.3757
Macedonia Cemetery31.62711-90.51676
McDavid Cemetery31.3585-90.35509
Missionary Cemetery31.43239-90.46342
Moak Cemetery31.39433-90.36537
Moak and Sasser Cemetery31.42063-90.53828
Montgomery Baptist Church Cemetery31.37501-90.5097
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery31.44014-90.5562
New Sight Cemetery31.66655-90.44814
Newell Cemetery31.68433-90.51481
Philadelphia Cemetery31.67266-90.65315
Pleasant Grove Cemetery31.49795-90.25008
Pleasant Grove Cemetery31.51906-90.60482
Price Cemetery31.3935-90.31981
Price Cemetery31.40156-90.44426
Rawls Cemetery31.39739-90.33092
Rose Hill Cemetery31.57878-90.4337
Ruth Cemetery31.37543-90.31104
Saint John Cemetery31.68322-90.40342
Smith Cemetery31.59327-90.3909
Smith Cemetery31.611-90.34425
Stewarts Cemetery31.48906-90.47537
Thompson Cemetery31.65294-90.3312
Warren Cemetery31.64572-90.2987
Zion Hill Cemetery31.53183-90.42509

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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