Shubuta, Mississippi

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• An invitation to Clarke County Mississippi
  

  There is so much going on for our neighboring county to the south that I probably can't fit it all in this column - so my first "fun advice" is that you must visit and see it all up close and personal.

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  You can submit your religion briefs to blockridge@themeridianstar.com The briefs are published every Saturday, and must be received every Monday by 5 p.m. in order to be published that Saturday.

• Homicide Investigation in Waynesboro
  

  An investigation is underway into a pair of deaths in Waynesboro. Police Chief Leonard Frost said 53-year-old Kynard Buford, Jr.

• Jenkins, Pippin
  

  Linda Merrell Jenkins of Laurel and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lynn Jenkins of Meridian announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Ashley Lynn, to Jason Randolph Pippin, son of Mr.

• Stanley, Trest
  

  Dawn Stanley and Chuck Trest announce their engagement and forthcoming wedding. The bride-elect is the daughter of Bobby Craig Stanley of Shubuta and Mary Ann Stanley of Tupelo.

• Ellisville State School names Employees of the Month
  

  The Direct Care Employee of the Month winners for May, 2008 were recently announced at Ellisville State School.

• Festival mixes music, food, voting
  

  LAUREL - The slow-rising smell of barbecue wafted over morning walkers at Mason Park as vendors prepared food for the Taste of Southern Mississippi Food Fest on Saturday.

• Shubuta man charged with commercial burglary
  

  A Shubuta man is charged in connection with the theft of business checks from John Rushing Construction on Victory Road in Laurel.

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City Description

Shubuta is a town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States. Shubuta was incorporated in 1865. Although Shubuta was a trading post community in and around the 1830's it wasn't until the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was signed that the area was opened up for settlers. Shubuta really started growing when the railroad came through in the 1850's. It was one time the largest town between Meridian and Mobile with people coming from forty miles around to shop at the many mercantile businesses in town. The first record of the word Shubuta appears on Bernard Roman's Map of 1772, a copy of which appears in Riley's History of Mississippi. Riley wrote the name, "Chobuta" which means smoky water in the Choctaw language. The first newspaper in the area was the Mississippi Messenger established by Judge Charles A. Stovall in 1879. Shubuta is located at 31°51′39″N 88°42′2″W / 31.86083, -88.70056 (31.860939, -88.700690). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 651 people, 244 households, and 165 families residing in the town. The population density was 271.0 people per square

City Contained By:

• Clarke County
• Mississippi

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 6.21597146481 km squared

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