Ebenezer, Mississippi

Ebenezer, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Ebenezer is located in Mississippi
Ebenezer
Ebenezer
Ebenezer is located in the United States
Ebenezer
Ebenezer
Coordinates: 32°58′14″N 90°05′27″W / 32.97056°N 90.09083°W / 32.97056; -90.09083
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyHolmes
Elevation
331 ft (101 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
39146
Area code662
GNIS feature ID669637[1]

Ebenezer is an unincorporated community located in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. Ebenezer is located at the western end of the eastern segment of Mississippi Highway 14, approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of the county seat of Lexington and 4 miles (6.4 km) approximately west of Goodman.

According to a 1905 source, Ebenezer was named by settlers from "the old Jewish city".[2] It may have been a destination of some German-Jewish immigrants, who settled mostly in Lexington in the county beginning in the 1830s. They were joined later in the century by Russian Jewish immigrants. The community built Temple Beth El in Lexington in 1905; it closed in 2009 because of declining population.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ebenezer, Mississippi
  2. ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 113.
  3. ^ "A Final Yom Kippur in the Delta for Mississippi Community Begun in 1830s", The Jewish Daily Forward