Editing Brooksville, Mississippi (section)

==History==
The town's name comes from the several brooks which flow nearby.<ref>{{cite book | last = Capace | first = Nancy | title = Encyclopedia of Mississippi | publisher = North American Book | date = 2001 | isbn = 9780403096039 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dlLDIiQv9twC&pg=PP1}}</ref>

A post office was established in 1846, and the town was incorporated in 1860.<ref name="Howe">{{cite web | last = Howe | first = Tony | title = Brooksville, Mississippi | publisher = Mississippi Rails | url = http://www.msrailroads.com/Towns/Brooksville.htm | access-date = March 2, 2014}}</ref>

Brooksville was a stop on the [[Mobile and Ohio Railroad]], built in the 1850s.<ref name="Howe"/>

Brooksville has a large Holdemann Mennonite community.<ref>{{cite web | title = Communities | publisher = Noxubee County Economic and Community Development Alliance | url = http://noxubeecountyms.com/quality-of-life-noxubee-mississipp/noxubee-county-communities/ | access-date = March 2, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131228144958/http://noxubeecountyms.com/quality-of-life-noxubee-mississipp/noxubee-county-communities/ | archive-date = December 28, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="Sisson">{{cite news |last1=Sisson |first1=Carmen K |title=More than 1,000 Mennonites gather at Trotter for North American convention |url=http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=16118 |access-date=December 20, 2018 |date=March 16, 2012}}</ref>