Hot Coffee, Mississippi - They were saddled with a reputation to uphold as long as maps and cafe customers existed.

d'Lo, MIssissippi - as in d'low spot in the creek where your wagon wouldn't bog down in the middle of a crossing.

Isola, Mississippi - more difficult - New Supt. of education way way back had a state map with "Isolated Schoolhouse" marked in on the old school system map. Unfortunately the "ted" of Isolated fell in teh fold on the dried out and cracked map and had disappeared, leaving "Isola School" and that name stuck.

Yazoo, Mississippi is an old indian word for "Black Death" It was the Yazoo river and black death came from mosquitoe fever.

Kosciusko, Mississippi after the Polish General in Revolutionary war and founder of WestPoint, NY. How his name got to Mississippi I'll never know.

Panther Burn, Mississippi. In a place where panther once roamed free and common. Close to the place where Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot the "TeddyBear". Only a broken down Cotton Gin is there, now.