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Belhaven Neighborhood. Coordinates: 32.315384°N 90.173606°W. 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]
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 ...
Medgar Evers Historic District is a U.S. historic district and residential neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. The neighborhood contains the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, the former home of African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963). Poet and writer Margaret Abigail Alexander Walker (1915–1998) lived ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson 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.
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.
Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The town's name is derived from the Choctaw phrase iti bina, meaning "forest camp". Itta Bena is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. It developed as a trading center of an area of cotton plantations.
Jackson Public Schools is the second-largest school district in Mississippi, serving nearly 21,000 scholars, representing more than 80 percent of school-aged children in the state's capital and only urban municipality. Jackson, Mississippi has about 170,000 residents in an area of 104 square miles. There are 7 high schools, 10 middle schools ...
Interstate 220 ( I-220) in Mississippi is a loop around Jackson that provides an Interstate connection for I-55 and I-20. The northern terminus for the route is in the suburb of Ridgeland, at I-55 exit 104. The highway was Mississippi's first auxiliary Interstate, complete by 1981. Traffic heading to and from the city's western side can use ...