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Magnolia was founded in 1856 by Ansel H. Prewett, a local civic leader and cotton planter. Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad (now the Illinois Central Railroad) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town ...
Location of Hinds County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hinds County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Mississippi: Magnolia (state flower) Magnolia: 1900 (enacted 1952) [35] Tickseed (state wildflower) Coreopsis: 1991 [36] Missouri: Hawthorn: Crataegus: 1923 [37] Montana: Bitterroot: Lewisia rediviva: 1894 [38] Nebraska: Goldenrod: Solidago gigantea: 1895 [39] Nevada: Sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata: 1967 [40] New Hampshire: Purple lilac (state ...
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Magnolia was platted in 1896, and named the flowering plant magnolia. [2] A post office called Magnolia was established in 1896, and remained in operation until 1953. [ 3 ]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [3] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [4]
According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2,949,965 inhabitants and the 31st largest by land area, spanning 46,923.27 square miles (121,530.7 km 2) of land. [1] Mississippi is divided into 82 counties and contains 300 municipalities, consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
By 1860, Mississippi was the nation's top cotton-producing state and slaves accounted for 55% of the state population. Mississippi declared its secession from the Union on January 9, 1861, and was one of the seven original Confederate States , which constituted the largest slaveholding states in the nation.