page_title: Rolling Fork, Mississippi
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rolling Fork, Mississippi / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Illinois Central Depot, Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Collection: Railroad Depot Postcard Collection Call number: PI/1987.0009 System ID: 77427 Link to the catalog Illinois Central Depot, Rolling Fork, Miss. Please see our profile page for information on ordering. Scanned as tiff in 2008/11/13 by MDAH. Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
context_page_description: Rolling Fork is a town in Sharkey County, Mississippi. The population was 2,143 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Sharkey County.
context_section_description: Thomas Y. Chaney located here in 1828, and was the first settler in the county.  Deer Creek flows through the settlement, and Chaney called the place "Rolling Fork" because of the swiftness of the water at a fork in the creek there.
  A post office was established in 1848.
  When Sharkey County was established in 1876, Rolling Fork was made the county seat.
  A newspaper, The Deer Creek Pilot, was established in 1884.
  The Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway was built through Rolling Fork in 1883.  It was later acquired by the Illinois Central Railroad.
  In 1908, the Bank of Rolling Fork was established.
  Rolling Fork had a population of 1,000 in 1906.
caption: Illinois Central Railroad depot in Rolling Fork
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