Wayside is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.[1]

Wayside, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Belmont Plantation in Wayside is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Wayside, Mississippi
Coordinates: Mississippi#USA 33°16′08″N 91°02′01″W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Washington
Elevation	121 ft (37 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	38780
Area code(s)	662
GNIS feature ID	679401[1]

The settlement has a post office and water tower. Wayside is located on Mississippi Highway 1 approximately 8 mi (13 km) south of Greenville.[2]

History

The Belmont Plantation was located in Wayside. The plantation home was completed in 1859,[3] and has been described as "one of the few antebellum homes in the region not burned by rampaging Union soldiers".[4] The extant home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[5]

Wayside was originally located directly on the Mississippi River at the eastern end of "American Bend", and the early settlement had a steamboat landing. The river changed course following a flood in 1858, cutting off the bend and creating an oxbow lake now called Lake Lee.[6][7]

A branch of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway, completed in the late 1880s, passed through Wayside.[3]

In 1900, the population was 65.[8]

On October 9, 2009, a tornado destroyed three mobile homes, damaged 16 houses and knocked down trees. A fatality occurred in a mobile home, and two others were injured.^{[citation needed]}

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