Editing Baldwyn, Mississippi (section)

==History==
Located five miles north of [[Guntown, Mississippi|Guntown]], the main street of Baldwyn runs along the county line of Lee and Prentiss counties. It has the unusual distinction of having been [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] in four counties. Founded on November 20, 1860,<ref>{{Citation|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, 145 rolls. Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]|place=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> it was [[Municipal corporation|incorporated]] by an [[Statute|act]] of the [[Mississippi Legislature|Legislature]] in [[Tishomingo County, Mississippi|Tishomingo]] and [[Itawamba County, Mississippi|Itawamba]] counties on April 1, 1861. Lee county was formed from parts of Itawamba and [[Pontotoc County, Mississippi|Pontotoc]] on October 26, 1866, while Tishomingo was divided into [[Alcorn County, Mississippi|Alcorn]], Prentiss, and Tishomingo on April 15, 1870.<ref name="Brieger">{{cite book|date=1980|editor-last=Brieger|editor-first=James F.|title=Hometown Mississippi|publisher=Historical and Genealogical Association of Mississippi|page=291}}</ref>

Baldwyn is an outgrowth of the village of Carrollville: when the [[Mobile and Ohio Railroad]] was being built during the years of 1848 to 1861, it missed Carrollville by one and one-half miles and the citizens moved to the new town of Baldwyn, which was named for the [[civil engineer]] who [[Surveying|surveyed]] the road through the town. [[Tishomingo (Chickasaw leader)|Tishomingo]], chief of the [[Chickasaw]] nation, lived at Carrollville but died near [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], in 1839 of [[smallpox]] [[Trail of Tears|while being moved west]] with his [[tribe]].<ref name="Brieger"/>