Baird is an unincorporated community located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
Baird is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Moorhead and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Indianola.
The settlement was named for John Rupert Baird, the former owner of the town site.[2]
In the early 1900s, a station of the Southern Railway was located in Baird.[2] The track, originally crossing the state from Columbus to Greenville, is currently owned and operated by the Columbus and Greenville Railway, and line is now truncated as far as Greenwood.[3]
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References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baird, Mississippi
- ^ a b Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 179.
- ^ "Columbus and Greenville Railway – A Genesee & Wyoming Company".
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