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Jones County Junior College as viewed from U.S. Route 11. Jones College is a public community college in Ellisville, Mississippi.It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and serves its eight-county district consisting of Clarke, Covington, Greene, Jasper, Jones, Perry, Smith, and Wayne Counties.
Jones County had mostly yeoman farmers and cattle herders, who were not slaveholders and had little use for a war over slavery. [citation needed] During the American Civil War, Jones County and neighboring counties, especially Covington County to its west, became a haven for Confederate deserters. [4] A number of factors prompted desertions.
Location of Jones County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Texas. There are 22 properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. [4] Laurel is northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first county courthouse. It has the second county courthouse, as Jones County has two judicial districts.
The social history of American agriculture (1936) online; Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Encyclopedia of American Agricultural History (Greenwood, 1975) Schob, David E. Hired hands and plowboys: farm labor in the Midwest, 1815-60 (1975), pp. 173–249. Shannon, Fred A. The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897 (1945) online
In 1904, the college developed a 100-acre farm equipped with the latest in farm machinery and labor-saving devices. During that time, the university farm provided much of the food for the campus cafeteria. [5] In 1915, the North Carolina General Assembly changed the name of the college to Negro Agricultural and Technical College of North ...
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Coahoma County Agricultural High School was established in 1924. It was one of the first agricultural high schools for Blacks in Mississippi. A junior college curriculum was added in 1949 and the institution's name was changed to Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School.