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The Department of Archives and History is the second oldest state department of archives and history in the United States. [ 6 ] In 1902, Dunbar Rowland , an attorney and historian, was selected as the first Director of the department and served in that position until his death in 1937.
State Treasurer of Mississippi is a post created in 1817 when the state was admitted to the Union. Before the state was formed by splitting the Alabama Territory from the Mississippi Territory , an equivalent post was the Territorial Treasurer General, established in 1802.
The Mississippi Historical Society was relaunched for a third time in 1952 and has maintained itself in continuous operation ever since. [3] For a brief year between 1952 and 1953 MHS was active, falling once more into dormancy until its most successful upstart in 1964 with the production of J. F. H. Claiborne’s book "Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State". [7]
Mississippi history is explored ... 9 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Miss. State, national and Civil War flags from the collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...
Governor Cliff Finch signed the bill into law on March 4, and that day the secretary of state's office handed the files over to the Department of Archives and History, comprising the filing cabinets, two cardboard boxes of financial records, a meeting minute book, and two loose manila folders. Several days later a package of other records kept ...
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State football quarterback Chris Parson intends to enter the transfer portal, he announced via social media on Monday. Parson was the third-string quarterback for MSU ...
In 1998, the Mississippi State Legislature authorized MDAH to begin planning construction of a new Museum of Mississippi History. Subsequently, a coalition of Mississippi architects – Eley Guild Hardy; Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons; and Dale Partners – was selected to design the building in association with The Freelon Group (Perkins&Will) of Durham, NC.
Lee Hall on the Mississippi State University The Drill Field on the campus at Mississippi State University. As of Fall 2021, Mississippi State's enrollment was 23,086. [27] The university has 160 buildings, and the grounds comprise about 4,200 acres (17 km 2), including farms, pastures, and woodlands of the Experiment Station.