Harness Horses for Sale near Scooba, MS

About Scooba, MS

The first permanent settlement at Scooba was made in the 1830s. Scooba is a Choctaw word meaning "reed brake", and the early settlement was noted for its productive farmland. A line of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad passed through Scooba. A Democratic weekly newspaper, The Kemper Herald, was established in Scooba in 1876. By the early 1900s, Scooba had several residential homes, a hotel, a livery barn, a post office, two saw milling plants, a cotton gin, a general store, five churches (three white and two colored), a school, and a bank (the Bank of Kemper, established in 1904).