Hamburg, Mississippi

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Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States

CountryUnited States

Elevation

407 ft (124 m)

Hamburg, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 31°34′44″N 91°04′00″W / 31.57889°N 91.06667°W / 31.57889; -91.06667
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Franklin
Elevation	407 ft (124 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes	601 & 769
GNIS feature ID	693401^[1]

Hamburg is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Mississippi, United States.

Hamburg is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad.^[2] The community was incorporated in 1886 and unincorporated at a later date.^[3]

A post office operated under the name Hamburgh from 1838 to 1893 and under the name Hamburg from 1893 to 1965.^[4]

Hamburg was formerly home to three separate newspapers. The Franklin Herald was established in 1886 and operated in Hamburg until 1890, when the printing equipment was moved to Knoxville.^[5] The Hamburg Gazette was published weekly beginning in 1900.^[6] The Gusher was also published weekly by O. Q. Griffing beginning in 1901.^[7]

The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad operated a gravel pit in Hamburg.^[8]

References

↑ "Hamburg". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
↑ Howe, Tony. "Hamburg, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
↑ Mississippi (1886). Laws of the State of Mississippi. State of Mississippi. p. 555.
↑ "Franklin County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals. Goodspeed. 1891. p. 230.
↑ "The Hamburg Gazette (Hamburg, Miss.) 1900-19??". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 833.
↑ Ephraim Noble Lowe (1920). Road-making Materials of Mississippi. State geological survey. p. 57.

External links

Photographs of the Hamburg Depot

v t e Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, Mississippi, United States
County seat: Meadville
Towns	Bude Meadville Roxie	Map of Mississippi highlighting Franklin County
Unincorporated communities	Eddiceton Hamburg Knoxville Little Springs Lucien McCall Creek Quentin Veto	Map of Mississippi highlighting Franklin County
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