Bankston is a ghost town in Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States.

In 1848, the first successful, mechanically powered textile mill in Mississippi was founded in Bankston by James Madison Wesson.

[3] Located on McCurtain's Creek,[4] a tributary of the Big Black River, the Bankston Textile Mill, also known as Mississippi Manufacturing Company, produced cloth and shoes for the Confederacy after Mississippi seceded from the Union.

Because of its isolated location in the backwoods of Choctaw County, the Bankston Mill continued to operate through 1864.

The end came when scouts for the Union Army learned that the mill was turning out one thousand yards of cloth and 150 pairs of shoes each day.