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Roxie was founded in 1886 on a plot of farmland donated by John Quincy Adams Graves, [3] who was the County Supervisor and a former soldier in the Regimental Band of the 4th Volunteer Mississippi Regiment during the Civil War. The town was named in honor of Graves' newborn daughter. [4] Roxie was incorporated in 1890.
This steamboat plied the Mississippi River watershed after her construction in 1924. In 2009 she was disassembled and transported overland to St. Elmo, Illinois . This loss of historical integrity prompted the National Park Service to withdraw her landmark designation.
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]
Arrowheads from the Jaketown Site. Jaketown Site is an archaeological site with two prehistoric earthwork mounds in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. [2] While the mounds have not been excavated, distinctive pottery shards found in the area lead scholars to date the mounds' construction and use to the Mississippian culture period, roughly 1100 CE to 1500 CE.
Iowa annual rainfall in inches Mississippi River alluvial plain from SIDP bluffs north of Kingston, Iowa As in most of the U.S., surface water in Iowa is never safe to drink untreated, contamination by agricultural runoff including nitrates , herbicides , pesticides , and animal waste is common, though the Clean Water Act has helped.
Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,675. [1] Its county seat is Meadville. [2] The county was formed on December 21, 1809, from portions of Adams County and named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. [3]
The Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge is a 4-lane steel girder bridge that carries Interstate 80 across the Mississippi River between LeClaire, Iowa and Rapids City, Illinois. The bridge is named for Fred Schwengel, a former U.S. Representative from Davenport, Iowa and one of the driving forces behind the Interstate Highway Act. [3]
"A Confederacy within a Confederacy," Magazine of American History 16. Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer (2009). The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy, New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-52593-0. Leverett, Rudy H. (1984, second printing 2009). Legend of the Free State of Jones. University Press of ...