McComb City, Mississippi, was founded in 1872. Mississippi had been promoted from a territory to a state only fifty-five years prior to the founding of McComb City. The south was still in the throes of reconstruction as results of the Civil War. Elizabeth town, Burglund and Harveytown, three small communities in McComb City, agreed to consolidate and incorporate. The Jackson and Northern Railroad extended its line 105 miles north of New Orleans. The new railroad terminal became the center of the new municipality which was to bear the name McComb in order of Henry Simpson McComb, one of the railroad officials. Many of the pioneer families moved here from New Orleans to work in the new railroad maintenance shops. In the original charter of the city it was stipulated that no intoxicating liquors should ever be sold within the limits.