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Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District. / 32.30389°N 90.18861°W / 32.30389; -90.18861. Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, known as a hub for Black -owned businesses up until the 1970s. Named after a family that lived and had businesses on that street for ...
Arizona. Eloy: A three-block-long portion of West Second Street was renamed by the city council to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street. Glendale: Maryland Avenue from 91st to 95th Avenue was renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard by the city of Glendale in 2016.
Belhaven Neighborhood or "The Greater Belhaven Area", often simply called "Belhaven", is a neighborhood located in Jackson, Mississippi. Belhaven Neighborhood is named after the home of Confederate veteran Jones S. Hamilton, [1] which became the namesake of Belhaven University. [2] Belhaven is a historic district and one of Jackson's oldest ...
Highway in Dublin, Georgia. The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington County, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, United States senator, and Secretary of War.
May 13, 1982. ( #82003106) Tougaloo College campus. 32°24′15″N 90°09′39″W. / 32.4041°N 90.1607°W / 32.4041; -90.1607 ( John W. Boddie House) Tougaloo. Now known as the Robert O. Wilder Building, it is the only remaining structure from the slave plantation that the historically black college was built upon. 2.
Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320. According to 2019 estimates, the population has ...
Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died at the age of 35 during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven.
0676320. Website. prentissms .com. Prentiss is a town in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,081 at the 2010 census, [2] down from 1,158 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat. [3] Prentiss is located on the Longleaf Trace, Mississippi's first recreational rail trail .
3. Jefferson Davis County Courthouse. Jefferson Davis County Courthouse. November 10, 1994. ( #94001308) Junction of North Columbia Avenue and 3rd Street. 31°36′02″N 89°51′55″W. / 31.600556°N 89.865278°W / 31.600556; -89.865278 ( Jefferson Davis County Courthouse) Prentiss.
Clarksdale, Mississippi. Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. [2] It is located along the Sunflower River. Clarksdale is named after John Clark, a settler who founded the city in the mid-19th century when he established a timber mill and business. Clarksdale is in the Mississippi Delta ...