Town of Edwards Traditional Cache
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Emigrants from the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee first settled the Edwards community in the period 1820-1830. The first town in the Edwards community was known as Amsterdam and was located about two miles northwest of the present town of Edwards. The town of Amsterdam flourished during the 1830’s and then just faded away. An epidemic of the cholera about 1832 and the fact that the Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad missed it by about two miles caused the death of the town.
Edwards had its beginning as a plantation settlement. R.O. (Dick) Edwards, for whom the Edwards Hotel in Jackson is named, owned the plantation, and with the coming of the Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad in 1839, it was known as Edwards Depot. The Yankees burned the depot in 1863 and the present location of the depot is about a quarter of a mile east of the old site.
The removal of the town to its present site was made in 1866 and at once became a commercial center. The records show that as many as twenty thousand bales of cotton have been shipped from this point in a single season.
The Town of Edwards was incorporated in 1871. It is located on the Illinois Central Railroad and is 28 miles west of Jackson and 16 miles east of Vicksburg.
Edwards’ first newspaper was The Echo, a weekly, established in 1900. The disastrous Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1897 greatly reduced the town’s population. In some families, every member was ill at the same time and some members died and were buried without the others finding out.
Some of the early personalities, to mention a few, include R.O. Edwards, for whom the town was named; Colonel W.A. Montgomery, early citizen, soldier and statesman; Dr. Estus, a native of the town, who turned his home into a hospital for southern soldiers during the Civil War.
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