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The Sanford community is served by the Covington County School District. Students from the Sanford area attend Seminary Schools, of which there is an elementary, a middle, and a high school. All three are located together on Main Street. Seminary High School is classified as a size 3A under the Mississippi High School Activities Association.
U.S. Highway 49; U.S. Highway 84; Covington County is crossed both north-to-south and east-to-west by four-laned state highways. Highway 49, which runs north–south through all three municipalities and is commonly known as Mississippi's Main Street, connects the state's three largest cities—Jackson, Gulfport, and Hattiesburg—to Covington County as well as cities such as Wiggins, Magee ...
A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
Location of Hancock County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Eastman, who died on Feb. 29, was unequaled in his love for, dedication to, and command of Sanford-Springvale history.
Thomas Sanford Gathright was born in Monroe County, Georgia, on January 5, 1829. [1] His father died when he was at an early age [ 2 ] and his family moved to Alabama in the late 1830s. [ 3 ] He attended the Green Springs School for Boys under Henry Tutwiler near Greensboro, Alabama . [ 2 ]
One of the oldest settlements in Covington County, one of Hopewell's earliest settlers was Thomas Ates, who bought land from the Choctaw Natives. Ben and Mary Duckworth were also early settlers, and named the town after the Biblical account of Moses' and Abraham's definition of hope: "to trust, expect, await, and endure".
Hot Coffee, Mississippi Location of Covington County, Mississippi (in which Hot Coffee, MS is located) Coordinates: 31°44′23″N 89°26′46″W / 31.73972°N 89.44611°W / 31.73972; -89