Shubuta is a town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States, which is located upon the eastern be stuffy to of the state. The population was 441 as of the 2010 census, down from 651 at the 2000 census. Developed in the region of an in the future 19th-century trading post upon the Chickasawhay River, it was built near a Choctaw town. Shubuta is a Choctaw word meaning “smokey water”.

East of the town is a bridge exceeding the river; it is known as the “Hanging Bridge”. It was the site of the 20th-century lynch murders of four pubertal blacks in 1918, two of whom were pregnant women, and two male youths in 1942. National newspapers covered the lynchings, and the NAACP conducted investigations in both cases. No one was prosecuted for the murders. In auxiliary to confession of historic houses in town, the Shubuta Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in declare and national history. A total of 10 blacks were lynched in Clarke County from 1877 to 1950.

Located along the Chickasawhay River, the little town of Shubuta was incorporated in 1865. It had started in the 1830s as a trading say community, located near the Choctaw village of Yowani. During the grow old of Indian Removal, under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Choctaw people ceded most of their lands to the United States. Under the Indian Removal Act, they were unadulterated land in clash in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and most of the people were forced to relocate west of the Mississippi River. Their received homelands in the Southeast were sold or made understandable by lotteries to European Americans for settlement.

The first CD of the word “Shubuta” appears upon Bernard Roman’s “Map of 1772”, a copy of which appears in Riley’s History of Mississippi. The post was spelled as “Chobuta“, which means “smoky water” in the Choctaw language. It became a puff town for an Place developed for cotton plantations, which depended upon the labor of enslaved African Americans. Cotton was shipped downriver from Shubata to Mobile, Alabama, and later to supplementary major ports. The town started growing more shortly in the 1850s after being related to new communities by the railroad. At one era the largest town in the middle of Meridian, Mississippi, and Mobile, Shubuta attracted people from 40 miles (64 km) around to shop at its many mercantile businesses.