Charleston, Mississippi

==History==
The original county seat, Old Tillatoba, was discovered to have a defective land title, so the seat was removed to Charleston in 1837.<ref name="Rowland">{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog | volume = 1 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog/page/n401 395], 396}}</ref>

The Charleston Female school, established in 1852, flourished for several years. The ''Tallahatchie Herald'', a Democratic weekly newspaper, was established in 1892.  In 1901, the Charleston Bank was established.  By the early 1900s, Charleston had a brick courthouse and jail, three churches, schools, a Masonic hall, an [[Odd Fellows]] lodge, and two cotton gins.  Its leading agricultural staple was cotton.  The population in 1906 was 800.<ref name="Rowland"/>

In 1931, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake occurred in Charleston, the most powerful earthquake in Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/events/1931_12_17.php |title=US Geological Survey |publisher=Earthquake.usgs.gov |date=1993 |accessdate=2012-10-12}}</ref>