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The Museum of Mississippi History is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. The museum opened December 9, 2017, in conjunction with the adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in celebration of Mississippi's bicentennial. [2] The theme of the history museum is "One Mississippi, Many Stories". [3]
Museum of the Mississippi Delta: Greenwood Leflore Delta Multiple website, art, archaeology, agriculture, antiques and animals Museum of Mississippi History: Jackson Hinds Southwest Local history 15,000 years of state history, [34] with thousands of historic artifacts [35] Natchez Museum of African Art and Heritage Natchez Adams Southwest
In 1935, Mississippi's first rodeo was held in Columbia. In 2016, the Mississippi Rodeo Hall of Fame was founded and headquartered in Columbia. During the civil rights movement, Columbia and Marion County were the site of peaceful demonstrations, due to the diligent insistence of non-violence by Sheriff John Homer Willoughby. The town is known ...
The exhibit 'Flags from Mississippi: Emblems through Time,' seen Thursday, March 7, 2023, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson opened March 9 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Miss ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is located at 200 North St., Jackson, Mississippi next to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The William F. Winter Archives and History Building was dedicated on November 7, 2003.
A wooden school was built in 1894. It was named for Jackson's first Black alderman Smith Robertson in 1903. Richard Wright was an alumnus. It closed in 1971. [2] The school building was renovated and reopened as a history museum in 1984. [3] The original wooden school building burned. A brick building was built in 1909 and remodeled in 1929. [4]
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