Mize, MS

Mize is a town in Smith County, Mississippi, United States. The 2020 census counted 317 residents. Mize is the home of the Mississippi Watermelon Festival. Mize was settled by Europeans by the early 1900s on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad lines, though immigrants from Scotland may have settled the area as early as 1810. Mize Attendance Center provides education for the area. The short version is that Mize carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Mize: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Choctaw Indians had lived in the area for thousands of years, and were being forced westward by the early 1800s.