Turns out Benton County, MS is interesting.
TourPods has 8 narrated audio stories about Benton County — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.
Benton County
One Town, Two Counties
Hickory Flat’s map is simple until county government enters the picture.
Benton County
Where the Tracks Made a Town
A small Mississippi town takes shape where the railroad stopped.
Benton County
Where the Depot Decided the Town
How one railroad turned stops into trading centers across north Mississippi.
Benton County
Where Benton County Came to Do Its Business
How a courthouse square made Ashland Benton County's civic center.
Ashland Depot
Where Ashland Learned to Face the Tracks
A depot that turned movement into the shape of a town.
Benton County
When a Homeland Became a County
How Benton County emerged from Chickasaw homeland in the 1830s.
Benton County
When Pontotoc Creek Changed a Homeland
A treaty that reshaped Chickasaw land and the future Benton County area.
Benton County
When Worn-Out Fields Became Forest
How New Deal conservation remade damaged Benton County farmland into public forest.
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