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Mira
The first
settlers in the area arrived in about 1872 and called
their community “Loma.” 1
The
Texarkana, Shreveport,
and Natchez Railroad ran a line through Mira in 1897 and
built a depot there some time after the completion of
the line. The post office opened at Mira in July of 1899
with Richard Yarbrough serving as the postmaster. It was
either when the depot was built or when the post office
was established that the town was renamed Mira after
Mira Williams, the daughter of an early settler.2
There were
three stores in Mira at the time. Hawthorn’s Store later
became the post office when he became postmaster. The
Lawton and Dominick families operated the other two
stores. The Dominicks’ store, built in 1918, was a
commissary for the workers on their family plantation.
Dominick paid the workers with bozines, which were metal
coins about the size of a quarter with a hexagon cut out
of the center. These coins could only be spent at the
commissary.3
Two
schools were established in the river bottoms of Mira.
The first one, Scott Slough School, was located on the
levee near Scott Slough. The other was Plainview School,
built by the school board in the 1920s, along
Scott Slough Road.
When students reached tenth and eleventh grades, they
were transported to Hosston for school.4
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