Billups, Mississippi

Billups is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Billups is located at 33°25′50″N 88°35′06″W / 33.43056°N 88.58500°W / 33.43056; -88.58500 west of Columbus and just south of Golden Triangle Regional Airport. According to the United States Geological Survey, variant names are Billups Gate and Billups Station. It is the site of the former Billups Gate Plantation, founded by Thomas Carleton Billups in 1852. He owned surrounding plantations that included; The Billups Mims Place, The Billups Whitfield Place, The Billups Tuttle Place and the Billups Hearon Place. Billups Station was the whistle stop for Billups Gate. The site is famous locally for the former "cheese plant" that descendants of T. C. Billups built in the 1920s. It consisted of two buildings and operated for just one year under the control of Borden Milk. It was hoped to improve the economy of the area after the arrival of the boll weevil when Jersey cows were replacing cotton as the cash crop.

References

"Billups". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2006-04-25.

Municipalities and communities of Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States

County seat: Columbus

City	Columbus

Towns	Artesia Caledonia Crawford

CDPs	Columbus AFB New Hope

Unincorporated communities	Bent Oak Billups Flint Hill Forreston Kolola Springs Mayhew McCrary Penns Plum Grove Steens Trinity Wells Whitebury Woodlawn

Ghost towns	Moores Bluff Nashville Plymouth

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