Lake View, Mississippi

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Lake View, Mississippi
Lake View is located in Mississippi
Lake View
Lake View
Coordinates: 34°59′20″N 90°08′28″W / 34.98889°N 90.14111°W / 34.98889; -90.14111Coordinates: 34°59′20″N 90°08′28″W / 34.98889°N 90.14111°W / 34.98889; -90.14111
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyDeSoto
Elevation
228 ft (69 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
38680
Area code(s)662
GNIS feature ID691994[1]

Lake View is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi/Tennessee border just south of Memphis and north of the village of Walls. Lake View is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad.[2]

During Prohibition, multiple Memphis businessmen opened nightclubs in Lake View.[3]

A post office operated under the name Lake View from 1885 to 1895 and under the name Lakeview from 1895 to 1932.[4]

From 1910 to 1928, the Memphis Street Railway Co operated the Memphis and Lakeview Railway. This was a 10 mile track that had four streetcars assigned to it.[5]

The Valley Brick and Tile Company once operated a brick factory in Lake View.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake View, Mississippi
  2. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 21.
  3. ^ Patrick O’Daniel (26 November 2018). Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey: Prohibition in Memphis. University Press of Mississippi. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-4968-2005-1.
  4. ^ "DeSoto County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  5. ^ Brooks, Frank. "Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi: Memphis and Lakeview Railway". Preservation in Mississippi. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  6. ^ Mississippi Geological, Economic, and Topographical Survey (1907). Bulletin - Mississippi State Geological Survey. Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographical Survey. p. 2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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