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re: What small town in the south is the most Mayberry-like place?

Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:12 am to
Posted by CSATiger
The Battlefield
Member since Aug 2010
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Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:12 am to
Marshall, TX or even Jefferson, TX
Posted by Papoo63
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Jan 2022
252 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:37 am to
Ragley,LA...And it Blows...
Posted by Globetrotter747
Member since Sep 2017
5230 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:54 am to
Monroeville, AL.

Small town in SW Alabama. Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, is from there. Lots of tributes to the novel around town and locals put on a play in the spring. It has a private school that’s never had a black student.

I don’t know if it qualifies as “Mayberry,” but it’s far more 1960s southern than most places.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
50492 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:57 am to
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Arley, Alabama.

Good little town.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
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Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:00 am to
This was Zachary, LA, when I was a child in the 1960's.
Posted by BrianKellyRespecter
Member since Aug 2022
534 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:32 am to
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Cottonport


Ever been there for real? Place is literally like that movie the hills have eyes. Hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you drive through the old “downtown” part of it off the highway.

Edit - actually I’m thinking about Simmesport. Dont know anything about cottonport maybe it’s nice.
This post was edited on 9/21/22 at 12:31 pm
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
134986 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:34 am to
Mt. Airy in real life, Mt. Pilot in Mayberry life.
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired - 31 years
Member since Feb 2019
6044 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 11:43 am to
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Can confirm, spent some time in the area working awhile back.

Still a Confederate flag flying at the courthouse



You right, time stands still, that flag is flying in front of the court house to this day. The small plot it is on is supposedly privately owned.
Posted by huddelmao
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2012
26 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 11:53 am to
Columbia La, mostly local businesses and restaurants… And everyone knows everyone
Posted by tigerbaiter
Member since Dec 2006
615 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 2:39 pm to
Lecompte Louisiana
Posted by turnpiketiger
Member since May 2020
11965 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 4:48 pm to
In Texas the towns would be:
Brenham, New Braunfels, Lindale, Decatur, Montgomery, Newton and Longview.

Posted by lockthevaught
Member since Jan 2013
2644 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 4:52 pm to
Carrollton, Mississippi
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
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Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:06 pm to
Watson
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
9464 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:12 pm to


Falfurias Texas, home to a great small town butter manufacture
Posted by R11
Member since Aug 2017
4928 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:33 pm to
Jena La
Posted by Hussss
Helena, AL
Member since Oct 2016
7672 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 5:52 pm to
Downtown Arlington, TN
Posted by Klingler7
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
12527 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:13 pm to
Maybe a bit southwest but Mertzon, Texas, just west of San Angelo is just like Mayberry as far as the people and the Courthouse .
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
99802 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:35 pm to
Greensboro, Al

Monticello, Ar

There’s a ton of rural southern towns like mayberry
Posted by ElderTiger
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2010
7644 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 6:43 pm to
We only spent a couple of hours there this summer but Wytheviile, VA seemed pretty quaint. Maybe someone who is more familiar with it can confirm or deny.
Posted by TNtrash
The Cotton Fields
Member since Jun 2021
366 posts
Posted on 9/21/22 at 7:47 pm to
Greensburg
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