Battlefield, Mississippi

Battlefield, first located in adjacent Lauderdale County, Mississippi, was allegedly established on and named for a Choctaw battlefield.^[3] Its first post office opened in 1849 before it was moved Newton County, Mississippi in March 1860.^[4] The community served as the northern terminus of the Tallahatta Railroad and at one point had a number of businesses and churches, along with a school.^[5] The post office stayed open until 1915.^[6] The community has a cemetery, though all of its tombstones disappeared overnight in the 1970s.^[7]

The community was more recently home to a dragstrip called the Battlefield Raceway that has since been shut down.^[8]