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Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city.
Brierfield Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°09′12″N 91°07′15″W / . 32.15320°N 91.12094°W. / 32.15320; -91.12094 ( Brierfield) Warren. Built 1847 by Jefferson Davis adjacent to his older brother's Hurricane Plantation; destroyed by fire in 1931. [citation needed] 83000949. Cherry Grove Plantation.
Designated USMS. September 21, 2001 [1] The Eudora Welty House & Garden, at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, was the home of author Eudora Welty for nearly 80 years. It was built by her parents in 1925. [4] Welty and her mother built and tended to the garden located at the side and back of the home over decades.
March 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM. Robert A. Eikhoff has been named as the special agent in charge of the FBI Jackson Field Office in Mississippi by Director Christopher Wray, according to an FBI press ...
The post Mississippi lawyers argue whether legislative maps are fair to Black voters appeared first on TheGrio. The NAACP argues there are too few majority-Black state House and Senate districts ...
November 7, 1976 [2] Designated USMS. November 14, 1990 [1] The King Edward Hotel, built in 1923 as the Edwards Hotel, is an historic hotel in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. The second of two buildings located on the site at the corner of Capitol and Mill Streets, it was closed and vacant for nearly 40 years before renovations began in 2006.
The Oaks in a photograph from the 19th century. The Oaks House Museum, also known as The Oaks, located at 823 North Jefferson Street in Jackson, Mississippi, is the former home of Jackson Mayor James H. Boyd (1809–77) and his wife Eliza Ellis Boyd and their family. Having survived the burning of Jackson during the Civil War, The Oaks is one ...
Hurley is located in northeastern Jackson County at (30.663293, -88.499558 Mississippi Highway 613 passes through the center of town, leading north 23 miles (37 km) to Lucedale and south 24 miles (39 km) to Pascagoula , the Jackson county seat .
The National Heritage Area comprises Pearl River, Stone, George, Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties. It includes the Mississippi portion of Gulf Islands National Seashore. The area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Much of the national heritage area's efforts since that time have focused on recovery and preservation and ...
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 ...