Norfield, Mississippi

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Coordinates: 31°24′28″N 90°28′02″W / 31.40778°N 90.46722°W / 31.40778; -90.46722
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Norfield, Mississippi
UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)601 & 769
GNIS feature ID674932[1]

Norfield is an

unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Mississippi, United States.[1][2]

History

The community was founded in 1886 as a sawmill town.

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

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

Gallery

  • Aerial view of Butterfield Lumber Company mill
    Aerial view of Butterfield Lumber Company mill
  • School in Norfield
    School in Norfield
  • The Norfield Hotel in 1907
    The Norfield Hotel in 1907

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Norfield, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Mississippi Department of Transportation-Lincoln County
  3. ^ Campbell, Brett (April 26, 2021). "Norfield historical marker approved". The Daily Leader. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Norfield". hmdb.org. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  5. ^ "Perfection in the Manufacture of Mississippi Longleaf Pine". American Lumberman (1665): 44. April 20, 1907.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Howe, Tony. "Norfield, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  8. ^ Howe, Tony. "Norwood & Butterfield Co. (1891-1900)". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  9. ^ "Lincoln County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  10. ISBN 978-0-8108-8921-7
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