Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
Alamucha (also Alamutcha ) is an
unincorporated community in
Lauderdale County, Mississippi , United States.
[1]
It is located 16 mi (26 km) east of
Meridian , and 3.5 mi (5.6 km) west of the
Alabama state line.
History
Alamucha originated as a
Choctaw settlement, and was named for the nearby
Alamuchee Creek .
[2]
[3]
[4]
Alamucha became one of the earliest non-native settlements in Lauderdale County.
[5]
A postal road was established from
Marion , via Alamucha, to
Gaston, Alabama in 1838, and a post office had been established in Alamucha by 1841.
[6]
[7]
Lodge No. 130 of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Mississippi was established in Alamucha in 1850.
[8]
Civil War
In 1861, local plantation owner Peter H. Bozeman recruited men to serve in "The Alamucha Infantry", of which Bozeman was captain.
[9] Volunteers from
Clarke , Lauderdale,
Newton and
Tippah counties joined the Alamucha Infantry (Company E), which was attached to the
13th Infantry .
[10]
[11] John J. McElroy, a merchant from Alamucha, enlisted in Bozeman's Company in May 1861, and the following month participated in the
Battle of First Manassas .
[12] Later in the war,
Leonidas Polk , a general in the
Confederate States Army , temporarily evacuated his troops to a location near Alamucha.
[13]
Decline
Alamucha began to decline during 1850s and 1860s as railroads were constructed through neighboring communities.
[14]
All that remains today at the settlement are some homes along Highway 496, and a station of the Alamucha Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department.
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Notable people
References
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alamucha
^ Davis Davidson, June; Putnam, Richelle (2013).
Legendary Locals of Meridian . Arcadia. p. 7.
ISBN
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Native American Place Names in Mississippi . University Press of Mississippi. p. 3.
ISBN
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The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America . Vol. V. C.C. Little and J. Brown. 1850. p. 280.
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Register of All Officer and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States . U.S. Government Printing Office. 1841. p. 241.
^
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi . Clarion Steam Printing. 1882. pp. 493, 534.
^ Wynne, Ben (2006).
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ISBN
9780881460391 .
^ Tucker, Phillip Thomas (2013).
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ISBN
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ISBN
9781476624365 .
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"The Seven McElroys of the Thirteenth Mississippi Infantry C.S.A." Mississippi Signals C.S.A. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
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"Merrehope, Circa 1858" . Meridian Restorations Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
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"Extinct Towns & Villages of Lauderdale County, Mississippi" . Genealogy Trails. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alamucha Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department
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"Trumpet Records - Jackson" . Mississippi Blues Commission. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
^ Ryan, Marc W. (2004).
Trumpet Records . University Press of Mississippi. pp. 6, 7.
ISBN
9781617035258 .