Editing Amory, Mississippi (section)

==History==
Amory was founded as a planned railroad town. The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad was expanding in the [[Southern United States|South]] and needed a midpoint between [[Memphis, Tennessee]], and [[Birmingham, Alabama]], to service their locomotives. They laid out the new town of Amory, near the Alabama border, in 1887.

Believing railroad access to be critical, people from nearby Cotton Gin Port, about 1.5 miles away and located along the [[Tombigbee River]], abandoned their town and moved to Amory. All that remains of the former Cotton Gin Port are the ruins of buildings and an old cemetery.

Two field recordings were made at Monroe County Training School in Amory.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/6239281-Various-Field-Recordings-Volume-8-Louisiana-Alabama-Mississippi-1934-1947 | title=Various - Field Recordings - Volume 8: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi (1934-1947) | website=[[Discogs]] }}</ref>

=== 2023 tornado ===
{{See also|Tornado outbreak of March 24–27, 2023}}
On the evening of Friday, March 24, 2023, Amory was [[Tornado outbreak of March 24, 2023|struck by a fast-moving EF3 tornado]], resulting in significant residential damage, as well as multiple injuries and two fatalities.<ref name=23tornado>{{cite web |title=Amory, Monroe County areas hit hard by severe storms |first=Joey |last=Barnes |url=https://www.wcbi.com/amory-monroe-county-areas-hit-hard-by-severe-storms/ |website=WCBI-TV |accessdate=March 25, 2023 |date=March 25, 2023}}</ref> At Amory High School, cameras caught the tornado damaging the building, ripping the roof off the building and flying debris impacted the schools' athletic facility.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brinkmann |first=Heather |date=March 26, 2023 |title=Video inside Amory school shows moments Mississippi tornado hit |url=https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/amory-high-school-mississippi-tornado |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=FOX Weather |language=en-US}}</ref> The same tornado also impacted [[Egypt, Chickasaw County, Mississippi|Egypt]] prior, and [[Wren, Mississippi|Wren]] thereafter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ArcGIS Web Application |url=https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/StormDamage/DamageViewer/ |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=apps.dat.noaa.gov}}</ref>