Place:Artesia, Lowndes, Mississippi, United States

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NameArtesia
Alt namesArtesia Depotsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28000409
TypeTown
Coordinates33.416°N 88.645°W
Located inLowndes, Mississippi, United States
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Artesia is a town in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The population was 440 at the 2010 census.

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Artesia was originally Artesia Junction, a junction point on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. During the railroad's construction in the 1850s, an offer was made to the towns of Columbus and Aberdeen to route the railroad through the towns, but both towns refused. Columbus reconsidered a few months later; but by that time, the railway had already chosen a route well to the west of the town. However, the railroad did extend a spur line in order to serve Columbus, and that spur line joins the main line at the site of present-day Artesia.

Artesia was the site of a voter suppression incident in 1876 in which a group of heavily armed white men from Starkville came to intimidate black voters in the Republican Club. Federal troops were called to intervene, which enraged many whites, who depicted the event as a negro riot.

The name originates from a cluster of artesian wells that were found in the area.

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