Gloster’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Gloster. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗It was largely founded as a railroad town. Gloster was named after the engineer who put the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley R.R. through in the 1880s.
Drax Biomass operates a 450,000-metric-ton (440,000-long-ton) per year wood pellet production facility in Gloster. The facility was expected to create 45 jobs, and is called Amite BioEnergy.
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Start Gloster’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gloster’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewCasselle House: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Gloster
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Gloster, decade by decade
2000
unknown2 items
Nothing in Gloster is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Gloster has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Sunnyslope in Centreville, 5.8 miles away.
Gloster and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Casselle House and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.