Editing Magee, Mississippi (section)

==History==
The first settlers in the area were Arthur Mangum and Phil Magee, who came into the area around 1820. Pioneers from Virginia and the Carolinas followed. The town of Magee was originally named Mangum, after Arthur Mangum; it kept this name until 1859.<ref name="ancestry1">{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~eastozarka/mangum/magg07.htm |title=mangum - magg07.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File |website=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com |access-date=2017-05-02}}</ref>

In 1840, Willis Magee built a [[grist mill]] on Little Goodwater Creek, inside the present city limits. He started the first and only postal service in the area in 1855.<ref>{{cite book|title=Magee The First 100 Years 1900-2000|publisher=John P. "Pat" Brown}}</ref>

Robert Solomon Magee was the first post master in Magee and the city of Magee was named after him.

Richard Farthing came to Magee in 1859 when he was in the leather tanning business. He bought 80 acres of land and also built a tanyard and used water from the mill pond to tan his leather.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |title=Magee The First 100 Years 1900-2000 |publisher=John P. "Pat" Brown}}</ref> The population of Magee in 1919 was 786. There were approximately 23 businesses in the area at the time.<ref name="auto"/>

Magee is approximately 42 miles south of Jackson, 45 miles north of Hattiesburg,<ref name="auto"/> and 12 miles south of Mendenhall, the county seat of Simpson County.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.distance-cities.com/distance-mendenhall-ms-to-magee-ms|title=Distance between Mendenhall, MS and Magee, MS|website=www.distance-cities.com}}</ref>

Magee's first mayor was R.P. Vinson, who served from 1900 to 1907.<ref name="auto"/>

In 2013, First Baptist Church in downtown Magee was seriously damaged by a fire but has been restored.<ref>{{cite web |title=First Baptist Church in Magee rebuilt, better than ever|date=30 May 2017 |url=https://churchexecutive.com/archives/rise-ashes-leaders-historic-first-baptist-church-magee-rebuilt-better-ever-2-million-fire |access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref>

Windham's Restaurant is located in Magee, and was established in 1963, locally known as "Zip's". In 2015, the Zip Burger was voted the best hamburger in Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web | title = Zip Burger in Magee Named Best Burger in Mississippi | publisher = Eat, Drink, Mississippi | url = http://www.eatdrinkmississippi.com/zip-burger-in-magee-named-best-burger-in-mississippi.html | access-date = July 13, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160816035932/http://www.eatdrinkmississippi.com/zip-burger-in-magee-named-best-burger-in-mississippi.html | archive-date = August 16, 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mageenews.wpengine.com/zip-burger-named-top-burger-in-state-of-ms/|title=Zip Burger named top burger in State - MageeNews.com|last=Honea|first=Sue |date=18 February 2015 |access-date=6 June 2018}}</ref>

In 2017, the Magee Sportsplex was renamed the Jimmy Clyde Sportsplex in honor of former Magee mayor Jimmy Clyde.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ratcliffe|first1=Jason|title=Jimmy Clyde Sportsplex|url=http://mageenews.wpengine.com/jimmy-clyde-sportsplex/|publisher=Magee News|date=July 8, 2017}}</ref>

As of 2017, the mayor of Magee is Dale Berry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mageenews.wpengine.com/magees-mayor-dale-berry/|title=Magee's Mayor Dale Berry - MageeNews.com|last=Honea|first=Sue|date=17 May 2017 |access-date=23 May 2018}}</ref>

The city of Magee was featured in the Discovery Channel reality TV series Dirty Jobs.<ref>{{cite web |website=mageenews.com |url=https://mageenews.com/magees-dirty-job/ |access-date=18 January 2022|title=Magee's Dirty Job! |date=17 January 2022 }}</ref>