Pontotoc County Mississippi
Victoria64
The date of the establishment of Victoria has not been
ascertained by the writer. It was situated about one and
one-half miles northwest of the present town of Pontotoc. The
site of this place is for the most part in old fields. About the
only remains of the town are a few old wells and rock chimneys,
which are still to be seen.
Some of the most prominent citizens of Victoria were "Squire"
Watt, Barnard Franklin, Jno. W. Thompson (at that time a
teacher, but afterwards a prominent lawyer), Aaron Roote,
Benjamin D. Anderson, and James Hodges. At the time of its
greatest prosperity the place probably contained three hundred
inhabitants.
In writing of this place Mr. Anderson says:
"As to the enterprises existing
there, I cannot remember definitely and do not know any living
man who could give the desired information."
About the year 1834 McMackin, the celebrated hotel keeper, who
had formerly kept a hostelry where the Pontotoc land office was
first established, came into possession of the present site of
the town of Pontotoc. At that time he laid off a town and, being
a very influential citizen, moved the old town of Pontotoc to
its present site, which was so much better located than the town
of Victoria that the latter place was abandoned.
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Footnotes:
64. The facts relating to
the history of Victoria were kindly furnished the writer by Mr.
B. D. Anderson, of Pontotoc, Mississippi.
Source: The Mississippi Historical
Commission Publications, Volume V, Edited by Franklin L. Riley,
Secretary, 1902.
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