Tylertown

History

The town of Tylertown was first known as the Magee Settlement. It was settled by emigrants of the Magee and Thornhill families, who came from South Carolina. J. Thornhill acquired the first tract of land for the settlement on September 20, 1816, after Native Americans were pushed out of the area. Cullen Conerly went there in 1850 and bought out the Garland Hart store and established a post office which was called Conerly's post office. The store and post office served as the social center of the community for over a half century. The town bore the name Conerly's from 1848 to 1879. It was renamed as Tyler Town in honor of William G. Tyler; the name was shortened to one word in 1894. Cullen Conerly sold his mercantile interest to his brother-in-law Benjamin Lampton. He laid the foundation of the mercantile business of Tylertown. Tylertown was part of Pike County until 1912, when Walthall County was formed from Pike and Marion counties. The Tylertown Times (local newspaper) was started in 1907. Tylertown Insurance Agency, Inc. has been serving Tylertown's insurance needs since 1924. Luter's Supply, established in 1944, is a retail center for tubs, showers, and whirlpools. Jones Furniture opened in 1939. Tylertown's oldest pharmacy, Pigott's Drug Store, has been around since 1919. WTYL radio station came to Tylertown in 1969. An interesting story about Tylertown and Walthall County was related in Maury Klein's book "A Call to Arms" (Bloomsbury Press, Paperback edition, 2015). It seems that during World War II, the production and growing of food became problematic as both the United States and its allies were in need of great amounts of food. Production was lagging and crops were rotting in the fields for lack of crop pickers - farm laborers either marched off to war or…

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  72
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  67
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  66
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  56
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  54
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  53
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  52
• White-eyed Vireo

  Vireo griseus (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  36

Largest nearby schools

• TYLERTOWN HIGH SCHOOL
  High · Tylertown · 509 students · 13.1:1 ratio
• SALEM ATTENDANCE CENTER
  Other · Tylertown · 459 students · 13.9:1 ratio
• TYLERTOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · Tylertown · 381 students · 10.9:1 ratio
• TYLERTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Middle · Tylertown · 254 students · 14.9:1 ratio
• DEXTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · Tylertown · 81 students · 9:1 ratio
• WALTHALL CO CAREER AND TECH CENTER
  High · Tylertown

Most recent

• M 3 — 2025-03-15
  5 km NNE of Magee, Mississippi
• M 3 — 2010-08-02
  16 km ESE of Clinton, Louisiana