Bewelcome, Mississippi

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Bewelcome (also Be Welcome) is an unincorporated community in Amite County, Mississippi, United States.^[1]

Bewelcome, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 31°13′08″N 90°56′19″W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Amite
Elevation	387 ft (118 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	692589[1]

The settlement is located within the Homochitto National Forest.

History

The Woodland United Methodist Church was established east of the settlement in 1870. A cemetery was also located there. The church closed in 2008.^[2][3][4]

Bewelcome had a post office in the early 1900s.^[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bewelcome
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlawn Church
3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlawn Cemetery
4. Herndon, Ernest (June 17, 2008). "Church Closing Sad, But Life Goes On". Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church.
5. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 236.