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Mississippi Highway 15 (MS 15) is a state highway in Mississippi. At almost 324 miles (521 km), it is the longest highway in the Mississippi Highway System . MS 15 is divided into two sections due to a large gap between Stone County and Perry County .
Jackson, Mississippi: Active [25] Beta Delta: Charlottes, North Carolina: Active [7] Beta Epsilon: Greensboro, North Carolina: Active [7] Beta Zeta: Westchester County, New York: Active Beta Eta: June 4, 1978 Delaware statewide Active [26] [c] Beta Theta: Knoxville, Tennessee: Active [27] Beta Iota: February 21, 1981 Waterbury, Connecticut ...
Sweetbay Bogs Preserve was established in 1989 by the Mississippi Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. [1] Located in the western portion of Stone County, Mississippi, the property contains a classic example of a hillside seepage bog which the Conservancy designated as Sweetbay Bogs Preserve because of the multitude of sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana) trees that occupy the site. [2]
It would be five years before George Washington became the first president and 15 years before Mississippi would even become a U.S. territory. Much of the present state remained under Spanish control.
Murrell was known as a "land-pirate", using the Mississippi River as a base for his operations. He used a network of 300 [15] to 1,000, [16] and even as many as 2,500 (as some newspaper reports claimed) fellow bandits collectively known as the Mystic Clan to pull off his escapades.
In 2021, according to a recent 363-page report by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture, 757,816 agricultural acres were held by foreign interests in Mississippi. That is an increase from ...
Edward McGehee (November 8, 1786 – October 1, 1880) was an American judge and major planter in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.He owned nearly 1,000 slaves to work his thousands of acres of cotton land at his Bowling Green Plantation.
Activists Bob Hicks (1929–2010), Charles Sims, and A. Z. Young, workers at the Crown-Zellerbach plant (Georgia-Pacific after 1985, later acquired by another), led this new chapter of the Deacons for Defense. Charles Sims, a World War II veteran was the president of the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons. [11]