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Athens
Historic Marker
Location
of sign - From Amory, head south on Highway 25 thru Becker and head
east on Greenbrier Road which dead ends in
Athens,
Mississippi.
Photo
taken- May 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Athens
N.E.
4 mi From date of incorporation in 1830 to 1836 it was Monroe Co. seat. S.J.
Cholson, J.M. Tucker & Reuben Davis lived
here.
River and railway traffic brought about its decline.
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