About Olive Branch, Mississippi

Olive Branch is a city of 39,711 people in DeSoto County, and its northern edge runs along the Tennessee state line just below Memphis. Milton Blocker and Stephen Flinn, related by marriage, settled here in 1836, the same year DeSoto County was formed from land the Chickasaw had given up. In 1840 Flinn sold his share of the land to Blocker for $6,400, and Blocker came to be known as the Father of Olive Branch.

A small settlement called Cowpens grew up in the early 1840s, and in 1842 it was renamed Watson's Crossroads. When the post office opened in 1846, Frances Wilson Blocker, from one of the founding families, proposed the name Olive Branch, after the dove that carried a branch back to Noah. The town was incorporated on April 11, 1873, with J. B. Stamps as its first mayor, and the 1880 census counted 73 residents.

“The only landmark of the early settlement is the MILTON BLOCKER HOME, a one-story double log house, with four rooms and an attached kitchen.”
Mississippi Guide to the Magnolia State, 1938
  • The railroad in 1885The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham laid its tracks through Olive Branch in 1885, giving the town a direct link to both Memphis and Birmingham. The state made it a village on March 6, 1888, and a 1907 state cyclopedia placed it on that line, 18 miles southeast of Memphis. By about 1900 close to 200 people lived here.
  • A school rebuilt on its stonesThe Olive Branch School opened in 1908 to replace a crowded 1873 building, and it held Bethel Township High School as well as the lower grades. Fire damaged the school in 1913, and builders put it back up in 1915 on the original foundation. Architect Charles Insco Williams designed it in the Craftsman style, with field stone, stucco, deep eaves and a low tile roof. Classes went on there until the early 1970s, when it became a district warehouse.
  • Cheese, cotton and powerThe village got its first cotton gin in 1910, a public water system in 1922 and electric service in 1927. In 1929 T.H. Norvell opened a cheese plant, the town's first major industry, beside what is now Cadence Bank. Sewers and paved streets followed around 1940, when the census counted 441 people.
  • Holiday Inn University, 1971Holiday Inn picked a site a few miles from downtown in 1971 for its Holiday Inn University and Conference Center and began a 3,000-acre industrial park at the same time. Olive Branch Airport opened in January 1973 with a 6,000-foot runway, and U.S. Highway 78 came through in 1974. The jobs and roads drew newcomers, and the city grew from 3,567 people in 1990 to 21,054 in 2000.

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Names on the Olive Branch map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks8

  • Handy Corner
  • Mineral Wells
  • Fairhaven
  • Pleasant Hill
  • Cedarview
  • Maywood
  • Payne Park
  • Indigo Lake

Streets and roads252

  • Lamar
  • Goodman Road
  • Highway 305 North
  • Highway 178
  • Old Highway 78
  • Highway 305
  • Highway 302
  • Cockrum Road
  • Lamar Avenue
  • Plantation Road
  • Stone Cross Drive
  • Rebekah Park Drive
  • Hacks Cross Road
  • State Line Road
  • Pleasant Hill Road
  • College Road
  • Craft Road
  • Church Road
  • Sandidge Road
  • Alexander Road
  • Polk Lane
  • Davidson Road
  • Desoto Road
  • Center Hill Road
  • Bridgeforth Road
  • New Craft Road
  • West Sandidge Road
  • Nail Road
  • Dunn Lane
  • Coleman Road
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  • Douglas Drive
  • Pigeon Roost Road
  • Craft Goodman Road
  • Blocker Street
  • Kirk Road
  • College Street
  • Rolling Hills Drive
  • Autumn Oaks Drive
  • Hillsdale Drive
  • East Sandidge Road
  • Mustang Road
  • Magnolia Drive
  • Spring Creek Drive
  • Camp Creek Road
  • Oak Leaf Drive
  • Hillsdale Road
  • Stonecrest Drive
  • Riggan Drive
  • Ashley Drive
  • Chateau Drive
  • Windersgate Drive
  • Quail Road
  • Shinault Lane
  • Stevenson Avenue
  • Roman Forest Drive
  • Braybourne Main
  • Miranda Drive
  • Wisteria Drive
  • Victor Drive
  • Loftin Drive
  • Marina Drive
  • High Point Road
  • Branch Drive
  • Eastover Boulevard
  • Chickasaw Drive
  • Westbrook Drive
  • Mary Jane Drive
  • Hunters Run Drive
  • Payne Lane
  • Parkview Boulevard
  • Austin Drive
  • Lafayette Drive
  • Hickory Drive
  • Redwood Drive
  • Tranquil Drive
  • Industrial Drive
  • Acree Lane
  • Oakwood Drive
  • Stateline Road
  • Mid South Drive
  • White Hawk Lane
  • Belmor Lakes Drive
  • Cedar Ridge Drive
  • Fox Run Drive
  • Metro Drive
  • Maxwell Drive
  • Curbo Lane
  • Darren Drive
  • Latham Drive
  • Lauren Drive
  • Fox Creek Drive
  • Pecan View Drive
  • Taylor Drive
  • Nellwood Drive
  • Looney Road
  • Cherry Tree Drive
  • Jones Road
  • Paloma Drive
  • Blue Bird Lane
  • Bobo Place
  • Jill Road
  • Maygan Drive
  • Deer Run Road
  • Ross Road
  • Fulmer Drive
  • Dehart Drive
  • Sylvan Lane
  • Lexi Drive
  • Davall Drive
  • Germantown Road
  • Magnolia Lakes Drive
  • Laurel Hill South
  • Wedgewood Drive
  • City Park Drive
  • Hamilton Circle
  • Ridgeway Industrial Drive
  • Davis Grove Boulevard
  • Bethel Road
  • Malone Road
  • North Hamilton Circle
  • Dawkins Farm Road
  • Timber Oaks Drive
  • Hunters Creek Drive
  • Summers Place Drive
  • Longwood Drive
  • Ross Road North
  • Pleasant Breeze Drive
  • Southbranch Parkway
  • Collinswood Drive
  • Tahoe Drive
  • Creekside Drive
  • Oak Grove Boulevard
  • Lacy Drive
  • Cedar Crest Lane
  • Roman Hill Drive
  • Forest Hill Irene Road
  • Setter Lane
  • Chatelet Drive
  • Michaelson Drive
  • Lexington Drive
  • Ridgewood Drive
  • Stanley Drive
  • Courtly Circle South
  • Belmor Crossing
  • Spring Valley Drive
  • Gwyck Road
  • Oakland Drive
  • Hunters View Drive
  • Cedar Creek Drive
  • Spring Hill Drive
  • Riva Ridge Drive
  • Travis Drive
  • Grove Park Road
  • Meadow Brook Drive
  • Morgan Drive
  • Cypress Woods Lane
  • Cameron Street
  • Deerfield Drive
  • Tally Ho Drive
  • Dupree Drive
  • Carson Drive
  • Polk Extended
  • Meadow Ridge Lane
  • Terry Chase
  • Tremont Drive
  • Amherst Drive
  • Lorrie Lane
  • Mc Neal Drive
  • Bowie Lane
  • Jennifer Lane
  • Aspen Lane
  • Dixon Drive
  • Rollins Cv
  • Isabel Drive
  • Branch Road
  • Village Lane
  • Maple Grove Road
  • Rowlett Drive
  • Braham Drive
  • High Point Cv
  • Canter Drive
  • Glen Circle
  • Mitchell Place
  • Airport Road
  • Wind Drive
  • Baron Drive
  • Church Street
  • Sierra Drive
  • Stark Drive
  • Flynn Drive
  • Fox Lane
  • Mwc Road
  • Liddle Lane
  • Huron Drive
  • Faye Drive
  • Mary Lane North
  • East Shahkoka Drive
  • Lodging Lane
  • Cherokee Drive
  • Montrose Drive
  • Valerie Drive
  • Bell Ridge Drive
  • Northwood Drive
  • Dorothy Drive
  • Plantation Lakes Drive
  • Railroad Avenue
  • Eastern Drive
  • Antebellum Lane
  • Maplewood Road
  • Yahweh Drive
  • Players Drive
  • Brooks Drive
  • Mason Street
  • Jefferson Drive
  • Willow Ridge Cv
  • Sandidge Extended
  • Dockery Drive
  • Regal Bend Drive
  • Cowans
  • Fox Hunt Drive
  • Beech Branch Drive
  • Conrad Drive
  • Heritage Drive
  • College Bluff
  • Autumn Point
  • Allen Glen Lane
  • Caitlin Drive
  • Bonner Drive
  • Kayley Lane
  • Emily Hill Lane
  • Brigid Drive
  • Cara Bnd
  • Old Craft Road
  • Chateau Road
  • Huckleberry Drive
  • Windersgate Circle
  • Kristen Drive
  • Caroma Street
  • Lake View Drive
  • Commerical Drive
  • Vaughters Cv
  • Lancaster Drive
  • Bryant Trent Boulevard
  • Wildwood Drive
  • Woodcrest Drive
  • Annesdale Drive
  • Mellen Drive
  • April Springs Drive
  • Carmon Drive
  • Garrison Lane
  • Bus Center Drive
  • Shady Lane

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