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Jackson's Military Road. Jackson's Military Road was a 19th-century route connecting Nashville, Tennessee, with New Orleans, Louisiana. After the War of 1812, Congress appropriated funds in 1816 to build and improve this road. It was completed in 1820. The road was named for then General Andrew Jackson, hero of the United States victory at the ...
Hinds Community College ( AA) University of Southern Mississippi, ( BA) Mississippi College School of Law, ( JD) Occupation. Politician, attorney. Shanda M. Yates (born March 29, 1982) is an American politician, representing the 64th district in the Mississippi House of Representatives since 2020. She is an Independent .
Coordinates: 30.365474°N 88.558354°W. Jackson County Sheriff's Office Patch. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency located in Jackson County, Mississippi, which is responsible of providing law enforcement services to areas of the county that are unincorporated communities which do not have their own local police force.
Pastor. Elementary school principal. Tony Yarber (born April 16, 1978) is an American pastor, educator and politician in Jackson, Mississippi. He was elected as Mayor of Jackson in April 2014 from special election following the death in office of Chokwe Lumumba. [1] A native of Jackson and experienced city councilor, Yarber is noted for his ...
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.
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 ...
Union Station (Jackson, Mississippi) / 32.30111°N 90.19111°W / 32.30111; -90.19111. Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak 's City of New Orleans rail line, Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and is Jackson's main city bus ...
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 ...