Puckett’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Puckett. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first European-American settlement at this location was in 1837, and the pioneers named it Clear Creek. One of the first settlers was Calvin Boone. A man known by the surname Merchant is credited with building the first water mill in the area, and with blazing a road along a ridge leading to another settlement then known as Shiloh. Settlers migrated from Alabama. A.A. Burnham applied for a US post office in 1890, asking that it be named either Clear Creek or Burnham. Due to these names already being used, the USPS assigned the name of Puckett to the post office, after the Puckett family, who came from nearby Tishomingo. Early in the town's history, a traveling show wintered there for a number of years. Attendance at its winter performances led to the town's being nicknamed "the largest little show place in the world". In the 1950s a sign was erected, saying "Welcome to Puckett 300 g…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Puckett’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Puckett’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPost Office, Puckett, Mississippi…, 1912: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Puckett, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Puckett is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Puckett has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Simpson County Courthouse in Mendenhall, 10 miles away.
Puckett and the nearest listed places
Closest to Puckett
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Post Office, Puckett, Mississippi (1912) (1912) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.