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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 four generations, [2] the street became a flourishing business area after the imposition of legal segregation under Jim Crow.
The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, [1] was a transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington, 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. Because of unintended conflict ...
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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.
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 neighborhoods and cultural centers as well as home to ...
Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places ( NR) as independent sites or as part of a larger historic district. Several of the sites are National Historic Landmarks ( NRL ). Others have Mississippi historical markers ( HM ). The citation on historical markers is given in the reference. The location listed is the nearest community to the site. More precise locations are ...
Ronald Mark Davis (June 18, 1956 – November 6, 2008) was an American physician who specialized in preventive medicine and was a public health and tobacco control advocate.
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 .
November 2–4 – 1963 Freedom Ballot, a mock election organized to protest and combat the systematic disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi. November 10 – Malcolm X makes his "Message to the Grass Roots" speech in Detroit. November 16 – A newspaper strike begins in Toledo, Ohio.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]