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Jackson Volcano is an extinct volcano 2,900 feet (880 m) beneath the city of Jackson, Mississippi, under the Mississippi Coliseum. The uplifted terrain around the volcano forms the Jackson Dome, an area of dense rock clearly noticeable in local gravity measurements. [1] E.W. Hilgard published his theory of an anticline beneath Jackson in 1860 ...
Bruinsburg, Mississippi. / 31.94250°N 91.15722°W / 31.94250; -91.15722. Bruinsburg is a ghost town in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. [1] It was located on the south bank of Bayou Pierre, 3.0 mi (4.8 km) east of the Mississippi River. The town's port, Bruinsburg Landing, was located directly on the Mississippi River ...
St. Cloud Hospital's main site is located north of downtown St. Cloud on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The hospital building has 11 floors (seven above ground), 1,496,000 sq ft (139,000 m 2) of floor space (not including the attached CentraCare Clinic), and sits on a 30.4 acres (0.123 km 2) plot of land. Hospital Services
Mayor's Office. Harvey Johnson Jr. (born December 21, 1946), [1] [2] is an American politician from Mississippi. He was elected in 1997 as the first African American Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, serving two terms. He was known for his achievements in gaining reinvestment in the city to revitalize downtown. He ran again in 2009 and was elected.
Metrocenter Mall is a defunct shopping mall located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. The largest enclosed shopping mall in Mississippi, [2] it contained 1,250,000 square feet of retail space on two levels, including four anchor spaces. Regional real estate developer Jim Wilson & Associates built the mall in Mississippi's capital city in ...
Jedediah Hotchkiss. Jedediah Hotchkiss (November 30, 1828 – January 17, 1899), known most frequently as Jed, [1] was a teacher and the most famous cartographer and topographer of the American Civil War. His detailed and accurate maps of the Shenandoah Valley are credited by many as a principal factor in Confederate General Stonewall Jackson ...
Oakley Youth Development Center (OYDC), [2] formerly known as Oakley Training School is a juvenile correctional facility of the Mississippi Department of Human Services located in unincorporated Hinds County, Mississippi, [3] near Raymond. [4] It is Mississippi's sole juvenile correctional facility for children adjudicated into the juvenile ...
Former diocese Coat of Arms. The Diocese of Jackson is a Latin Church diocese in Mississippi in the United States. Its ecclesiastical jurisdiction includes the northern and central parts of the state, an area of 97,458 square kilometers (37,629 sq mi). It is the largest diocese, by area, east of the Mississippi River .