The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first settlers came to the Stonewall area in the early 1830s. Colonel Edwards moved his family and possessions from Society Hill, South Carolina to a place they named the Bee Gum Community. This is approximately three miles east of the present Town of Stonewall.
Sometime later, friends of Colonel Edwards moved to the North of DeSoto Parish. Among these were the Witherspoons, Marshalls, Hollembeaks and others. The women came in carriages, the men on horses while their belongings were brought in wagons drawn by oxen and mules. The slaves followed with the livestock.
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Start Stonewall’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Stonewall’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Stonewall, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Stonewall is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Stonewall has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Buena Vista in Stonewall, 2.8 miles away.
Stonewall and the nearest listed places
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 (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.