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Panola County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
28historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
33,208pop. 2020
60cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 28 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Sardis, Como, Batesville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

22 of 28 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

28 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Ballentine-Bryant HouseSardisBuilding1984
Ballentine-Seay HouseSardisBuilding1984
Batesville Historic DistrictBatesvilleDistrict2003
Batesville Mounds (22Pa500)BatesvilleSite1988
Como Commercial Historic DistrictComoDistrict2008
Craig-Seay HouseComoBuilding1984
Crenshaw HouseCrenshawBuilding1984
Fredonia ChurchComoBuilding1978
Fredrickson No. 2 (22-Pa-821)BatesvilleSite1988
Hall-Henderson HouseSardisBuilding1984
Hall-Roberson HouseSardisBuilding1984
Holly Grove SiteSledgeSite1976
Holy Innocents' Episcopal ChurchComoBuilding1987
Hufft HouseSardisBuilding1984
Hunt Mound (22Pa980)PopeStructure1988
Johnson-Tate CottageSardisBuilding1984
Kyle, John Curtis, HouseSardisBuilding1984
Kyle, Judge John William, Law OfficeSardisBuilding1980
Lee HouseBatesvilleBuilding1984
Popular Price StoreComoBuilding1984
Short's HillSardisBuilding1980
Tait-Taylor HouseComoBuilding1984
Taylor-Falls HouseComoBuilding1984
Taylor-Mansker HouseComoBuilding1984
Taylor-Wall-Yancy HouseSardisBuilding1984
Walton-Howry HouseSardisBuilding1984
Wardlaw-Swango HouseComoBuilding1984
Well, TheSardisBuilding1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Panola was formed in 1836 (1836-03-01) from Monroe, Washington.

PANOLA created from MONROE, WASHINGTON, and Non-County Area 12 attached to TALLAHATCHIE. Non-County Area 12 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Panola County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

35k20k4,6571840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,65713,79428,35229,02727,84534,42131,27128,79128,16434,27433,208

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

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

Cemeteries — 60 of 60 listed
NameLatLon
Abes Chapel Cemetery34.53982-89.98203
Antioch Cemetery34.22976-89.9863
Askew Grove Cemetery34.51886-90.12142
Belmont Cemetery34.41593-89.87119
Beulah Cemetery34.5276-89.81064
Bishop Cemetery34.40455-89.96175
Black Jack Cemetery34.34959-89.7591
Bluff Springs Cemetery34.34603-89.80922
Centerhill Cemetery34.20483-90.0612
Chapel Hill Cemetery34.19736-89.91364
Chapeltown Cemetery34.26639-90.03011
Cistern Hill Cemetery34.50956-89.91402
Cold Springs Cemetery34.37552-89.80369
Como Cemetery34.51067-89.95094
Davis CemeteryNoneNone
Davis Chapel Cemetery34.42382-89.96804
Ebenezer Cemetery34.5251-89.76008
Emery Cemetery34.48104-89.74556
Forrest Memorial Park34.32848-89.80881
Fredonia Cemetery34.50322-89.82762
Friendship Cemetery34.49593-89.91453
Glenville Cemetery34.52843-89.7398
Hebron Cemetery34.39482-89.95564
Kind Providence Cemetery34.2126-89.74869
Liberty Cemetery34.44267-89.79414
Liberty Hill Cemetery34.20233-89.82758
Liberty Hill Cemetery34.50887-89.84515
Little Cemetery34.42514-89.81264
Long Creek Cemetery34.23371-89.83397
Longtown Cemetery34.51184-90.11722
Love Joy Cemetery34.18899-89.77869
Magnolia Cemetery34.30677-89.94592
McGehees Chapel Cemetery34.50029-90.05784
McIvor Cemetery34.37054-90.0139
Mclver Cemetery34.43825-89.9686
Mount Gillian Cemetery34.35121-89.85258
Mount Level Cemetery34.48081-89.98673
Mount Olivet Cemetery34.29513-89.78945
Mount Terza Cemetery34.34771-89.84828
New Hope Cemetery34.2936-89.84133
Old Bynum Cemetery34.21538-89.75619
Oldham Cemetery34.5401-89.94008
Peach Creek Cemetery34.43915-90.05769
Pilgrim Rest Cemetery34.24899-89.75536
Pisgah Cemetery34.22483-89.80869
Pleasant Green Cemetery34.45157-89.86895
Pleasant Grove Cemetery34.44111-90.09368
Rock Hill Cemetery34.39482-89.99342
Rogers Cemetery34.47593-90.14481
Rose Hill Cemetery34.44482-89.9148
Saint Maria Cemetery34.53399-89.82369
Shiloh Cemetery34.26594-89.94064
Simon Chapel Number 1 Cemetery34.47887-89.78228
Simon Chapel Number 2 Cemetery34.47575-89.76493
Spring Hill Cemetery34.21552-89.93047
Star Place - Shiloh Cemetery34.39237-90.04864
Union Cemetery34.46846-89.82674
Walton Chapel Cemetery34.43702-89.98642
Wesley Chapel Cemetery34.43511-89.85256
Whitten Cemetery34.2476-90.03564

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

Historical markers

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