Main street and water tower at McComb in Pottawatomie county in 1912. The town was originally named for J. Macomb, a Sante Fe railroad engineer. It looks like the spelling of the name got screwed up somehow and when the post office was opened in 1903, the town got stuck with McComb. In 1915, the post office got it right. The spelling was corrected and the towns name changed to Macomb. As of the 2010 census, Macombs population was 32 people. From the OSU digital Library: The McComb Heralds first edition, published December 28, 1904, proclaimed that the Queen City of South Pottawatomie County had a population of 350. Business establishments included five general stores, several drug stores, hardware and grocery stores, meat markets, two cotton gins and grist mills, two saloons, a bank, furniture and coffin store, hotel and restaurant, blacksmith, and millinery shop. Macomb was a service center for the surrounding agricultural area. Almost as quickly as the town had grown and prospered on the prairies, it began to decline in the 1930s. Drought brought an end to the large cotton crops once raised in the area.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:00:31 +0000
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