{"id":21569,"count":1,"description":"Byhalia (bye-HAY-lee-uh) is a town in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 706 as of the 2000 census.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5\u00a0km), all of it land.\nThe town of Byhalia was founded in 1838 when C.W. Rains and Wash Poe purchased land at the intersection of Pigeon Roost Road (now Church Street) and the Collierville-Chulahoma Road (now Highway 309). Pigeon Roost Road was originally the Chickasaw Trail, the route followed by Hernando DeSoto in 1541. Pigeon Roost Road had been improved in 1835 to accommodate the removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Oklahoma.\nByhalia was named for a creek spelled Bihalee. The Chickasaw word was Dai-yi-il-ah meaning \u201cWhite Oak.\u201d The U.S. Postal Service accepted the name Byhalia in 1846.\nByhalia's location had several advantages for an early settlement, lying near the crossroad site where the Pigeon Roost Road ran from Memphis to Oxford and Pontotoc. Much land in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/byhalia\/","name":"Byhalia","slug":"byhalia","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/21569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}