West Point and Clay County (Images of America) by Jack D. Elliott Jr.,Elizabeth A. Calvert,Rebecca M. Riley PDF

By Jack D. Elliott Jr.,Elizabeth A. Calvert,Rebecca M. Riley

Clay County extends from the banks of the Tombigbee River within the east throughout Mississippi's fertile Black Prairie, the Kilgore Hills, and leads to the Flatwoods to the west. West aspect, the county seat, lies within the japanese a part of the county in the course of the Black Prairie and used to be first constructed as a railroad heart for the cotton exchange through the 1850s. this present day, the neighborhood financial system is essentially ruled via production and companies. photographs of the US: West element and Clay County gains prehistoric Indian mounds, farms and plantations, corresponding to Waverley at the Tombigbee, and nineteenth- and 20th-century houses and shops that replicate the county's charm.

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