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Louise Helen Norton Langdon was born in La Digue, Saint Andrew Parish, Grenada, to Ella Langdon in either 1894 or 1897. [2] Ella was the daughter of Jupiter and Mary Jane Langdon, both of whom were kidnapped from Africa, possibly in the region of modern-day Nigeria, and sold into slavery.
WNBD-LD (channel 33) is a low-power television station licensed to Grenada, Mississippi, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Delta area. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications alongside Greenwood-licensed dual ABC/Fox affiliate WABG-TV (channel 6) and Cleveland-licensed low-power CBS affiliate WXVT-LD (channel 17).
Money is an unincorporated community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta. [1] It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there.
The Grenada, Mississippi, tornado of May 7, 1846, killed 21 people, injured 60, and destroyed 60 or 70 buildings in the southern half of Grenada, Yalobusha County, Mississippi [a] in the United States. [1] [2] [3] Other accounts had it that 112 buildings were destroyed, [4] including 17 homes. [5]
Jefferson Davis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,321. [1] Its county seat is Prentiss. [2] The county is named after Mississippi Senator and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Hutch was a major star in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, and was, for a time, the highest paid star in the country. [2] He was regularly heard on air with the BBC, with one of his biggest hits, his version of "These Foolish Things". Hutchinson soon became embittered by being frequently obliged to enter parties via the servant's entrance ...
Grenada Dam intake structure. The operation of Grenada Lake began in 1954 after a cost of $32 million to construct. The elevation of the top of the earthen-filled dam is 256 feet (78 m) NGVD. The Grenada Project encompasses 90,427 acres (366 km 2) with 35,000 acres (140 km 2) of this in water during the recreation season (215 NGVD). At this ...
William Baskerville Hamilton (1908–1972), historian, born in Jackson, taught public school in Holly Springs and Jackson [31] Robert Khayat (born 1938), chancellor of the University of Mississippi ; Rory Lee (born 1949), clergyman, college president ; Mamie Locke (born 1954), political scientist, dean at Hampton University