Isaiah T. Montgomery Founder of Mound Bayou Mississippi
c.1887
After the war the railroad was seeking people to inhabit wild lands. The country was wild and inhospitable and covered with forest and wilderness of heavy cane, thirty to forty families responded to the call the lands cost was $8.00 to $9.00 per acre. The women and children were left behind while the men build cabins.
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