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  2. Mississippi State University - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of colleges and universities in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Institution Location Type Enrollment [1] Founded Classification Alcorn State University: Lorman: Public: 2,933 1871 Master's university: Belhaven University

  4. Mississippi State, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi State is a census-designated place in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States. [2] It is the official designated name for the area encompassing Mississippi State University, which lies partly in the nearby incorporated municipality of Starkville. [3] The population at the 2020 census was 4,968. [4]

  5. Starkville, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Starkville is adjacent to and closely associated with Mississippi State University, which was founded as the state's flagship land-grant research university in 1878. The university was located near Starkville in the Mississippi Black Belt due to the region's agricultural productivity, particularly in the timber, cattle, and dairying industries.

  6. Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    By 1860, Mississippi was the nation's top cotton-producing state and slaves accounted for 55% of the state population. [10] 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.

  7. Golden Triangle (Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, rapid growth at Mississippi State University, the state's largest research university, has added to Starkville's stability and appeal. [8] In 2012, Starkville surpassed Columbus in population to become the largest city in the region. [9] The third city, West Point, Mississippi, has always been the smallest and more vulnerable ...

  8. Column: How Mississippi gamed its national reading test ...

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    Statistics show that Mississippi's children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized national reading test for fourth-graders in 2013 to narrowly exceeding the national ...

  9. Mississippi's 3rd congressional district - Wikipedia

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    The district includes Mississippi State University in Starkville. From statehood to the election of 1846, Mississippi elected representatives at-large statewide on a general ticket. This district has been redefined based on changes in statewide population. Its current representative is Republican Michael Guest.