In 1835, the state legislature formed Oktibbeha County and made Starkville the county seat, but it remained a village up to and through the Civil War. In 1878 solons chose land about one mile east of downtown as the location for Mississippi A & M College, today Mississippi State University (CH17), and the town’s fortunes have been closely tied to this institution ever since. A cotton mill (CH16) opened in 1902 and became the principal local industry. It was joined in 1926 by the Borden Milk Plant, then the company’s largest facility in the South.
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