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Mississippi State Penitentiary is in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, Mississippi. 50. The prison which occupies 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of land, has 53 buildings with a total of 922,966 square feet (85,746.3 m 2) of space. As of 2010 the institution can house 4,536 inmates. 1,109 people, as of 2010, work at MSP.
MPS. Holly Springs MRA. NRHP reference No. 82003108 [1] Added to NRHP. June 28, 1982. Hillcrest Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, United States. Established in 1837, it is known as the "Little Arlington of the South." It contains the burials of five Confederate generals.
Description. In order to house the large numbers of formerly-enslaved African Americans, the Union Army created a refugee camp for them at a location known as the Devil's Punchbowl, a natural pit surrounded by bluffs. Many of the formerly enslaved there died of starvation, smallpox, and other diseases. [1]
That grave was dug by inmates and marked only by a number — 645 — hand-painted on a metal post. Gretchen Hankins Exhumation of Son, Jonathan Hankins (Ashleigh Coleman for NBC News)
99001387. Added to NRHP. November 22, 1999 [ 1 ] Natchez National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River in Adams County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 25.7 acres (10.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,154 ...
Confederate graves in a portion of the Natchez City Cemetery. White Natchez residents became much more pro-Confederate 'after' the war. The Lost Cause myth arose as a means for coming to terms with the South's defeat. It quickly became a definitive ideology, strengthened by celebratory activities, speeches, clubs, and statues.
The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. [2] The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings.
Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated community of Shiloh, about nine miles (14 km) south of Savannah, Tennessee, with additional areas located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Shiloh and the Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in the city of Parkers ...