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The long awaited
Pictorial Retrospective of
Canton/Madison County.

$50.00

  • Lindbergh said that the night he spent near Canton in 1928 was “the worst night of my life.”

  • Trolio once ordered 400,000 gallons of bourbon at a time from Kentucky.

  • 1816 was the year without a summer.
    It’s been 160 years since the county’s last earthquake.

  • They had trouble burying Ringling Brothers Circus’s biggest elephant at the Canton fairground.

  • Why did county’s second courthouse last only 18 years?

$30.00


Did you ever have to
"Go stand in the hall!"
and wait for Mrs. Joyner?

Now you can own a limited edition print of an original watercolor of The Old Canton Grammar School by Allison's Wells artist John Fontaine.  Originally commissioned for James Carpenter in 1960 and given to the Canton-Madison County Historical Society by James J. (Buddy) Spears. 

$20.00
To order your by mail, add $5.00 per item and send a check made payable to:

The Canton-Madison County Historical Society
P.O. Box 232 • Canton, Mississippi  39046-0232

or
Purchase your copies any Tuesday or Thursday at the
Canton Chamber of Commerce Office
located in the Historic Canton Depot
100 Depot Drive, Canton, MS

All prices include sales tax

CANTON-MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SCOCIETY
P.O. Box 232 • Canton, Mississippi  39046-0232
thewarden@oldjailfleamarket.com
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