The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Wingo was established in 1854 as a stop along the New Orleans and Ohio Railroad, a predecessor line of the Illinois Central. The city was originally named "Wingo's Station" for local landowner Jerman J. Wingo, who provided the land for the depot. A post office was moved to the station from nearby Point Curve in 1862, and the city incorporated in 1872. The "Station" was dropped from the name in 1882. In 2021, Wingo-born Clayton Ray Mullins was arrested and charged in the assault of Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer "A.W." amidst that year's United States Capitol Attack, which was the focus of a subsequent long-form story in the New York Times.
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Start Wingo’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wingo’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Wingo, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Wingo is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Wingo has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley in Water Valley, 5.6 miles away.
Wingo and the nearest listed places
Closest to Wingo
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.