Glendora, Mississippi

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• Till park, Thompson suite to open Friday
  

  Glendora will celebrate the grand opening of a new park named after Emmett Till and a bed and breakfast suite named after U.S. Rep.

• Emmett Till Park to open in Mississippi Delta town
  

  A 20-acre park and nature trail in memory of Emmett Till opens Friday in the tiny Mississippi Delta town of Glendora, nearly 53 years to the day after an all-white jury acquitted two white men in the brutal ...

• 'Little season' honors debutantes, pages from area
  

  The Governing Board of the Southern Debutante Assembly introduced the honorees for 2008 at a garden party on May 30 at Equen Plantation, the home of Mr.

City Description

Glendora is a village in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 285 at the 2000 census. Glendora started out as a small sawmill site. Logs were floated down the river from around the vicinity of Webb to be sawed there. The first settlement developed two miles south of Glendora at Black Bayou. When the railroad was built through the territory in 1883, a station was located there and called Glendora. The town immediately grew. A post office was established and a voting precinct was established. Thus, the inception of Glendora, Mississippi in 1900. Cane Lake Lumber Company built a large sawmill there which operated until 1909 when it was moved to another site. Glendora is located at 33°49′46″N 90°17′36″W / 33.82944, -90.29333 (33.829368, -90.293375). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.4 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 285 people, 69 households, and 60 families residing in the village. The population density was 2,011.5 people per square mile (786.0/km²). There were 73 housing units at an average density of 515.2/sq mi (201.3/km²). The racial makeup of the village

City Contained By:

• Tallahatchie County
• Mississippi

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 0.258998811034 km squared

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