Mountain Community

Mountain Community was named after J. T. Mountain.  The community was established in the late 1860’s, about the same time as the first Mountain school.  The community is located in the southeastern part of Clay County, in the area of Bethany Road and Highway 49.

The population of Mountain Community is not quite as large as it was a hundred years ago and the fields the farmers all worked are now covered in timber.  Some of the people still grow gardens for fresh vegetables, but you do not see acres and acres of corn and cotton as you would have then.  Today there are no sawmills or cotton gins, no one operates a thrasher and there are no stores.  Before television and automobiles, this small community was filled with all of these.  Families farmed and ran saw mills, gins, and stores.  It was  a time when friends were important, you did not have to lock your house and you could always count on your neighbors.

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