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Carthage, Mississippi was established in 1834, and became the county seat. The Harris family were early settlers, and named the town after their former home of Carthage, Tennessee. When Carthage, Texas established in 1848, it was named after Carthage, Mississippi. [6] [circular reference]
Bernhardt Tiede II (/ ˈ t iː d /; born August 2, 1958) is an American mortician who was convicted of the November 19, 1996 murder of his companion, wealthy 81-year-old widow Marjorie "Marge" Nugent, in Carthage, Texas.
Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,491, [1] with its county seat in Carthage. [2] Located in East Texas and originally developed for cotton plantations, the county's name is derived from a Choctaw word for cotton.
Deadwood was the first community east of the Sabine River in Panola County. Men of the LaGrone family fought in the Texas Revolution, the Regulator-Moderator War, and the Civil War. After the end of the Civil War, a grandson of Adam, Confederate veteran Hiram Clark LaGrone, built a mill and gin that became the nucleus of the later town.
The following year Imes, local attorney John Frierson and local dentist Dr. D.D. Griffin formed a partnership and purchased The Columbus Commercial from Maer's widow. Imes merged the two papers in 1922. A subscription was $3 per year for home delivery and $2 for delivery by mail. The paper was a bi-weekly publication.
Two properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks including one that is designated a State Antiquities Landmark while the remaining property is also a State Antiquities Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025.
Leake County is a county in the center of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,275. [1] Its county seat is Carthage. [2] The county is named for Walter Leake, the Governor of Mississippi from 1822 to 1825. [3] In 2010, the center of population of Mississippi was located in Leake County, near the town of ...
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