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This is a list of Mississippi state parks. As of 2024 [update] , the state park system of the U.S. state of Mississippi comprises 24 state parks and one natural area. [ 1 ]
Golden Memorial State Park is a public recreation area in the U.S. state of Mississippi located off Mississippi Highway 492, three miles (4.8 km) southeast of Walnut Grove. [ 2 ] Activities and amenities
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Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones (1884–1989) was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She graduated with a degree in German in 1918. The Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Scholarship was created in her honor in April, 2010. [ 4 ]
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1986.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Roosevelt State Park is a public recreation area located off Interstate 20 on the southwest side of Morton, Mississippi. The state park surrounds 150-acre (61 ha) Shadow Lake at the western edge of Bienville National Forest, between Jackson and Meridian. It is managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. [3]
Legion State Park is public recreation area located on the north edge of the city of Louisville, Mississippi, and adjacent to Tombigbee National Forest. [3] As Legion State Park Historic District, the state park entered the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [2] It is managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and ...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition began at the confluence in 1804, and the explorers returned there at the end of their journey. [4] Following the purchase of the site through the aid of a grant from the Danforth Foundation, the Western Rivers Conservancy conveyed the land to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Metropolitan Parks and Recreation District in 2001. [6]