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Yalobusha County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.
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The line as surveyed cut almost a perfect diagonal across the area of the present day Yalobusha County.
James K. Polk of Tennessee, president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, was prominent early Yalobusha County landowner.
In 1852, Calhoun County was formed, and a tier of townships on the eastern border of Yalobusha County were taken to form part of the new county.
Grenada County was formed in 1870 and included nearly two tiers of townships which had formerly been the southern part of Yalobusha County.
In March, 1873, Yalobusha County was divided into two judicial districts, and Water Valley was named the county seat of the second judicial district.
Because the town overlapped the Yalobusha-Lafayette County line, the legislature gave Yalobusha a two-mile strip of land from the southern portion of Lafayette County.
Little industry remained in Yalobusha County after World War II, and by 1950 the county's population was down to 15, 191.
In the early 1950s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on two flood control reservoirs in and around Yalobusha County, much to the distress of county farmers who lost thousands of acres of fertile bottom land.
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Yalobusha is a native American word meaning " tadpole place ," and before the county was formed, it was the home of both the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes.
The river is 188 miles ( 303 km ) long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood.
Much of the Yalobusha's course through Calhoun County has been straightened and channelized ; this section of the river is also known as the " Yalobusha River Canal.
In descending order of land area the forest is located in parts of Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Yalobusha, Tippah, and Union counties.
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In 1833, the Mississippi Legislature authorized the formation of 17 counties, including Yalobusha, on what until recently had been Indian land.
In 1867, Yalobusha County's first manufacturing industry, Yacona Mills, was the world's largest manufacturer of twine.
Beginning at the point where the line between ranges 9 and 10 strikes the center of section 6, and running thence south with the said range line, and from its termination in a direct line to the northern boundary of Tallahatchie County and thence along the northern boundary of Tallahatchie and Yalobusha counties, to the center of range 5 west ; thence north through the center of range 5 west, according to the sectional lines, to the center of township six ; thence west through the center of township six, according to the sectional lines, to the beginning.
Yalobusha and Mississippi
Vardaman was born near Edna, Jackson County, Texas and moved in 1868 with his parents to Yalobusha County, Mississippi.
In Water Valley in Yalobusha County in northern Mississippi, Phillips challenged Johnson's proposal to change election laws, suggesting that his rival would create " a dictatorship ... so Republicans and Independents cannot run for office.
Cecil Donald " Don " Briscoe ( born March 20, 1940, Yalobusha County, Mississippi — died October 31, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (# 2 ) on Days of Our Lives, and, from 1968 – 1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on Dark Shadows.
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