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1st. Website. www.mississippicountyar.org. Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,685. [1] There are two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola. [2] The county is named for the Mississippi River which borders the county to the east.
December 13, 1978. Designated CP. August 1, 2008. The Mississippi County Courthouse is a courthouse at Poplar Street and Hale Avenue in Osceola, Arkansas, United States, one of two county seats of Mississippi County, built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Quorum court chambers of the Desha County Courthouse in Arkansas City, Arkansas. The quorum court is the legislative branch of the county government and controls all spending and revenue collection. Representatives are called justices of the peace and are elected from county districts every even-numbered year. The number of districts in a ...
Osceola is a city in, and a dual county seat of, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. [4] Located along the Mississippi River within the Arkansas Delta, the settlement was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1853. Occupying an important location on the river, the city's economy grew as steamboat traffic increased.
The Mississippi County Courthouse for the Chickasawba District is located at 200 West Walnut Street in Blytheville, Arkansas, one of Mississippi County's two seats (the other is Osceola). It is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story brick-and-cut-sandstone structure, designed by the Pine Bluff firm of Selligman and Ellesvard, and built in 1919.
David A. Clarke Jr – Milwaukee County, Wisconsin [99] Dwight Radcliff – Pickaway County, Ohio, longest serving sheriff in the United States. Eugene Coon – Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania (1969–1996), famous for halting foreclosure sales on laid off steel workers in the recession of the early 1980s.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States . There are 44 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Another two properties were once listed but have been ...
Several Mississippi State Historical Markers have been erected relating to this incident: Freedom Summer Murders (1989), near Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Neshoba County [66] [67] Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner Murder Site (2008, later vandalized and rededicated in 2013), at the intersection of MS 19 and County Road 515 [67]