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New Augusta is a town in Perry County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 554 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Perry County. [2] New Augusta is located about two miles south of "Old" Augusta, which was the county seat until 1906.
Map of the United States with Mississippi highlighted. Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States.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]
Perry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,511. [1] The county seat is New Augusta. [2] The county is named after the War of 1812 naval hero, Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the 1850s, Augusta was the site for the trial and hanging of the outlaw James Copeland. [8] In the 1890s, Davis Hawthorne was hanged in Augusta for the murder of his wife. [2] When the Mobile, Jackson, and Kansas City Railroad [9] was constructed 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Augusta, the town was moved to the railroad and developed as New Augusta.
Mississippi Valley State University: Itta Bena [s] Mississippi: 1950 Public Founded as Mississippi Vocational College Yes Morehouse College: Atlanta: Georgia: 1867 Private [t] Founded as Augusta Institute Yes Morehouse School of Medicine: Atlanta: Georgia: 1975 Private [l] Founded as a part of Morehouse College Yes Morgan State University ...
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Mississippi State University is home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Collection. The Mitchell Memorial Library is in the heart of the campus, on the eastern side of the Drill Field. [29] The library has a collection of 2,124,341 volumes and 70,331 journals. [30] Mississippi State is one of the few universities to house presidential papers.
Institution Location Type Enrollment [1] Founded Classification Alcorn State University: Lorman: Public: 2,933 1871 Master's university: Belhaven University