Editing New Albany, Mississippi (section)

==History==
New Albany was founded in 1840 at the site of a grist mill and sawmill on the [[Tallahatchie River]] near the intersection of two [[Chickasaw]] trade trails. The town developed as a river port and as a regional center for agriculture and commerce.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hillcountryhistory.org/2015/10/01/hill-country-new-albany-1840/ | title=New Albany (1840) | date=October 2015 }}</ref>

During the Civil War, the United States Cavalry under [[Benjamin Grierson]] passed through New Albany on their way [[Grierson's Raid|to raid Vicksburg]], when they encountered Confederate troops attempting to destroy the bridge over the Tallahatchie. The Confederate troops fled and the bridge was preserved.<ref name="DeForest">{{cite web |last1=DeForest |first1=Tim |title=GRIERSON'S RAID DURING THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN |url=https://www.historynet.com/griersons-raid-during-the-vicksburg-campaign/ |access-date=16 February 2023 |date=June 12, 2006}}</ref>

Union County was formed from parts of neighboring Pontotoc, and Tippah Counties in 1870, with New Albany designated as county seat.<ref name="MSE">{{cite web |title=Union County |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/union-county/ |website=Mississippi Encyclopedia |access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.msgw.org/union/ | title=Union County Mississippi USGenWeb Index Page }}</ref> In the late 1880s, two railroads (the [[Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad]] and the [[Gulf and Ship Island Railroad]]) came to New Albany, about the time its population of 600 were rebuilding after a severe fire.<ref>{{cite news |title=Spying Out The Goodly Land |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/584961155/ |access-date=22 June 2023 |work=Newspapers.com |publisher=Memphis Avalanche |date=27 Sep 1887 |page=5 |language=en |quote=...the next stopping place was New Albany, the county seat of Union county, Miss., located on the crossing of the Ship Island and Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham roads. It has a population of 600, and is surrounded by good country. It suffered a severe loss by fire sometime since, but the merchants are rebuilding as rapidly as possible...}}</ref> In 2013, a section of railroad was paved to become the Tanglefoot Trail, following the path of a rail that was once operated by author [[William Faulkner]]'s grandfather.<ref name="Upholt Spotlight">{{cite web |last1=Upholt |first1=Boyce |title=SMALL TOWN SPOTLIGHT: New Albany |url=https://www.mismag.com/small-town-spotlight-new-albany/ |website=Mississippi Magazine |date=17 July 2018 |access-date=16 February 2023}}</ref>

In 1925, [[Lynching of L. Q. Ivy|L. Q. Ivy]], a 17-year-old African American boy, was accused of beating and raping a 21-year old White woman.<ref name="AJA">{{cite web |last1=Prince |first1=David |title=The Fiction of Atticus Finch Meets the Reality of James PrinceThe Fiction of Atticus Finch Meets the Reality of James Prince |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1687&context=ajacourtreview |website=University of Nebraska-Lincoln |publisher=American Judges Association |access-date=February 7, 2023}}</ref>
A crowd of 4,000 gathered in New Albany and despite efforts from the victim's father and US senator [[Hubert D. Stephens]] to prevent a [[Lynching in the United States|lynching]], the crowd gained control, torturing and killing Ivy.<ref name="Ivy">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45672625/negro-confesses-to-attacking-girl-and/
|title=Negro Confesses to Attacking Girl and is Burned at Stake
|date=September 21, 1925
|newspaper=The Bristol Herald Courier
|location=Bristol, Tennessee
|via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LQIvy">{{cite news|url=http://www.lareecarucker.com/pages/lynching.htm
|title=The Lynching of L.Q. Ivy
|date=October 18, 2000
|newspaper=New Albany Gazette
|location=New Albany, Mississippi}}</ref>