Rara Avis is a ghost town located in Itawamba County, Mississippi, approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the Alabama state line.

Rara Avis was settled in 1850,[1] and the town name translated to Latin means "rare bird".

[2] A post office was established in 1902.

[3] Author and Baptist missionary James Garvin Chastain Sr., was born in Rara Avis in 1853.

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