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Starkville Mississippi & Oktibbeha County Area History

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Settlement began here after the Choctaws surrendered land claims in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830. White settlers were soon drawn here by the 2 large springs. A mill southwest of town provided clapboards, which gave the town its original name, Boardtown.
   
In 1835, it was established as the county
seat and its name was changed to Starkville in honor of Revolutionary War hero General
John Stark.
   
During the pre-Civil War years Oktibbeha County developed into an area of small farms and large plantations. The Civil War was hard on Oktibbeha County as it was on the rest of Mississippi. Large numbers of men volunteered for Confederate service and the farms suffered. Grierson's raiders came through the region in the spring of 1863 and looted Starkville. Another Union raid the following year was turned back just south of West Point by General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
   
The 1870s brought the first railroad into Starkville.  
 
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