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Pages in category "Lowndes County, Mississippi" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... The Commercial Dispatch; The Columbus Packet; L. USS ...
The Sandfield Cemetery was started in the late 19th-century (the exact date is unknown) and is thought to be the oldest African-American cemetery in the city of Columbus. [1] Many 19th and early 20th century leaders in the local Black community are buried at this cemetery. [ 1 ]
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1989. As of 2015, the cemetery contained some 22,000 graves within an area of 70 acres and was still in use. [5] The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science hosts a public event every April at night in the cemetery ...
Lowndes County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 58,879. [1] Its county seat is Columbus. [2] The county is named for U.S. Congressman William Jones Lowndes. [3] Lowndes County comprises the Columbus, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. [4]
Large lakes and rivers are nearby, such as the Buttahatchee River in northern Lowndes County that defines the border between Lowndes and Monroe counties; in the middle of the City of Columbus and Lowndes County lies the Luxapallila Creek, and the Tombigbee River with the John C. Stennis Lock and Dam impounding Columbus Lake. Columbus is a ...
The station signed on the air on March 21, 2016. [3]WMFH-LP was started primarily because of Lowndes County's very low education level. [5] Station founder and CEO Christopher Howard said the station "can be an important tool or introducing people to the large body of quality English literature they might not otherwise experience, including timeless works from Aesop to Melville and from ...
The Commercial Dispatch is the daily newspaper of Columbus, Mississippi, United States. It was created from the merger of two older papers, the Commercial and the Dispatch, in the early 20th century. The first issue of the consolidated newspaper was published on March 12, 1922.
Location of Lowndes County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lowndes County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...