Pontotoc

Pontotoc is a city in, and the county seat of, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, placed to the west of the tons larger metropolis of Tupelo. The populace become 5,625 on the 2010 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw phrase that means "Land of Hanging Grapes". They occupied this location before Europeans colonized the Southeast. In the early 1830s they had been pressured onto Indian Territory through Indian removal. In the overdue 19th century, the outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their gang as soon as concealed at an old residence that were used as a Union Army health center for the duration of the Battle of Harrisburg or Battle of Tupelo in the Civil War.

The residence changed into located at a crossroad in east Pontotoc County, near the Lee County line. The Town Square Museum is located in the historic US submit workplace near the county courthouse. This area is used to house and show Pontotoc memorabilia. There is also a full-carrier submit workplace working inside the building. The metropolis holds a festival in the Town Square yearly during the last week of the month of September known as the Bodock Festival. It celebrates the Maclura pomifera tree subsequent to the historic mansion, Lochinvar, that survived a huge tornado hit in 2001.