Map of Glendora village, Mississippi

Glendora is a village in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The population was 285 at the 2000 census.

Glendora village overview:
Name:	Glendora village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Mississippi
County:	Tallahatchie County
Elevation:	148 ft (45 m)
Total Area:	0.14 sq mi (0.37 km²)
Land Area:	0.14 sq mi (0.37 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	154
Population Density:	1,069.44/sq mi (411.86/km²)
ZIP code:	38928
Area code:	662
FIPS code:	2827660
GNISfeature ID:	0670435
Website:	glendorams.com

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History

Glendora was developed by White Americans as a small sawmill site. Logs were floated down the river from around the vicinity of Webb to be processed here.

The first settlement developed two miles south of Glendora at Black Bayou. When the railroad was built through the territory in 1883, a station was located there and called Glendora. The town immediately grew. A post office was established in 1900 and a voting precinct was established.

Cane Lake Lumber Company built a large sawmill here which operated until 1909. It was moved to another site.

In December 1955, Elmer Kimbrell, a white man, shot and killed Clinton Melton, an African-American resident, in front of three witnesses after an argument about how much gas Melton had pumped into Kimbrell’s car. Kimbrell was acquitted by an all-white jury after a short trial. Shortly before this murder, he was involved in the Emmett Till murder in Money, Mississippi. At this time, most blacks in Mississippi were still disenfranchised due to state barriers; they were not part of the jury pool because they were not registered voters and they were excluded from the political system.