Amory’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Amory. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Amory was founded as a planned railroad town. The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad was expanding in the South and needed a midpoint between Memphis, Tennessee, and Birmingham, Alabama, to service their locomotives. They laid out the new town of Amory, near the Alabama border, in 1887.
Believing railroad access to be critical, people from nearby Cotton Gin Port, about 1.5 miles away and located along the Tombigbee River, abandoned their town and moved to Amory. All that remains of the former Cotton Gin Port are the ruins of buildings and an old cemetery.
Two field recordings were made at Monroe County Training School in Amory.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Amory’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amory’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAmory Post Office, 1950: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Amory
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Amory, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
the same place, years apart
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1950 · Commons2022 · Commons
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.