The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Before Stonewall was a town, it was primarily the Chickasaw tribes land. Robert L. Cochran was a Georgia man who settled Stonewall first by opening up a trading post on the original site of Stonewall. The site was declared Pontotoc, which would become the county name in the present. Along with the settling of Cochran's store a post office opened there in 1858. The settlement was then named Stonewall in honor of confederate war general Stonewall Jackson. By the late 1800s, Stonewall had increased in population and had multiple businesses open such as a cotton gin, good stores, a hotel, and stagecoach station.
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Start Stonewall’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Stonewall’s history is told.
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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 Wintersmith Park Historic District in Ada, 10.6 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 (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.