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History · Jacinto

Jacinto dates to 1836, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Jacinto Courthouse. Below: maps from 1935 on.

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How Jacinto began

When was Jacinto founded?

1836

Jacinto dates its founding to 1836 (Wikipedia’s history). Its post office opened in 1840.

2020 census: 52190 years
Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1840.The full story ↓

What stands out about Jacinto’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Jacinto are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsEstablished in 1836: 190 years of Jacinto.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Jacinto’s history is told.

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Jacinto, 1836 to 1935

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1836
    FoundingJacinto is established
  3. 1840Post officeThe Jacinto post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1909Post officeThe Jacinto post office closes
  6. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Jacinto came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jacinto.

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A skirmish occurred on September 7, 1863 in the vicinity of Jacinto between Confederate and Union Cavalry during the American Civil War.

In 1869, Tishomingo was divided into three counties: Tishomingo, Alcorn and Prentiss. Corinth became the county seat of newly established Alcorn County, Iuka of the reduced Tishomingo County, and Booneville of the new county of Prentiss. When the county seat was moved from Jacinto in 1870, the town's importance declined, and town residents and businesses began moving away.

A post office operated under the name Jacinto from 1840 to 1909.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Jacinto, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Doctor's Office in Old Tishomingo County courthouse square2014Doctor's Office in Old Tishomingo County courthouse s…
On the map

Jacinto on the map, 1935 to 1991

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Jacinto. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Jacinto on the 1935 USGS mapJacinto on the 1950 USGS mapJacinto on the 1969 USGS mapJacinto on the 1991 USGS map1935Glens sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Jacinto.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Jacinto

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1969
Jacinto Courthouse
Jacinto Courthouse
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
Jacinto CourthouseFederal

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Jacinto had its own post office from 1840 to 1909.

Jacinto
1840–1909
18401930today
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Jacinto Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Jacinto
Jacinto

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Jacinto’s history

What year was Jacinto founded?

In 1836, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Jacinto’s post office opened in 1840.

What is on the National Register in Jacinto?

One place: the Jacinto Courthouse (listed 1969).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.