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Turner is co-director of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production in the town of Utica, population 600, where his family has lived for eight generations. The organization, better known as ...
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans traces its origins to 1986 when it opened at URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp, [13] a summer camp for Jewish children in Utica, Mississippi. The museum served as a clearinghouse and information center supporting the preservation of Jewish culture in the South, particularly in smaller towns ...
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 ...
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley in western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Good examples of this culture are the Medora site (the type site for the culture and period) in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana , and the Anna , Emerald Mound , Winterville and Holly Bluff sites located in ...
Utica was originally an area known as Cane Ridge. [4] In 1837, it was given the name Utica at the suggestion of the then postmaster, Ozias Osborn, who came from Utica, New York. [5] The town was incorporated in 1880. Utica was located on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. A weekly newspaper, the Herald, was established in 1897. In the ...
In 1954, a group of Jewish parents primarily from some small towns of the Mississippi Delta began fundraising for a summer camp where their small-town children could meet each other in a Jewish environment. In 1968 the land for the camp was purchased in Utica, Mississippi for $100,000 and construction began on November 9, 1969. [2]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Keith Taylor, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former New York police officer, said the mindsets of officers are often downstream of department culture.