Norfield is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States.[1][2]
Norfield, Mississippi | |
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 Illinois Central Railroad depot in Norfield | |
  Norfield  Norfield | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′28″N 90°28′02″W / 31.40778°N 90.46722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Lincoln |
| Elevation | 407 ft (124 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 601 & 769 |
| GNIS feature ID | 674932[1] |
History edit
The community was founded in 1886 as a sawmill town.[3] Norfield's name is a portmanteau of the surnames of Frederick Norwood and John S. Butterfield, who founded the Norwood-Butterfield Lumber Company.[4] The sawmill in Norfield was the first sawmill in the southern United States to use a bandsaw to cut yellow pine.[5] In 1900, the community had a population of 347 and was estimated to have a population of 700 six years later.[6] By 1930, the community had the second-largest population in Lincoln County and had a theater, hotel, and golf course.[4]
Norfield is located on the Canadian National Railway.[7] The Norwood-Butterfield Company operated the Natchez, Columbia & Mobile Railroad, a standard gauge logging railroad that ran 30 miles east from Norfield. The railroad operated six locomotives.[8]
A post office operated under the name Norfield from 1891 to 1953.[9]
Notable people edit
- Little Brother Montgomery, blues pianist, lived in Norfield as a young man[10]
Gallery edit
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Aerial view of Butterfield Lumber Company mill -
School in Norfield -
The Norfield Hotel in 1907
Notes edit
- ^ a b "Norfield, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Mississippi Department of Transportation-Lincoln County
- ^ Campbell, Brett (April 26, 2021). "Norfield historical marker approved". The Daily Leader. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ a b "Norfield". hmdb.org. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Perfection in the Manufacture of Mississippi Longleaf Pine". American Lumberman (1665): 44. April 20, 1907.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 345.
- ^ Howe, Tony. "Norfield, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Howe, Tony. "Norwood & Butterfield Co. (1891-1900)". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "Lincoln County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ Komara, Edward; Johnson, Greg (2014). 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8108-8921-7.
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