Forgotten Towns & Villages of Clay County, Mississippi

Extract taken from Publication of the Mississippi Historical Society, By the Mississippi Historical Society, Edited by Franklin L. Riley, Secretary, Volume V, Oxford, Mississippi, 1902, pgs 330 - 331, from chapter entitled “Extinct Towns and Villages of Mississippi” by Franklin L. Riley

Palo Alto [1]– The village of Palo Alto was situated within the original limits of Chickasaw County.  It was a place of some note at the close of the War between the States.  When Clay county was organized in 1871, Palo Alto fell within its bounds and was absorbed by the more enterprising town of Abbott.