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A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
Erle Ennis Johnston Jr. was born on October 10, 1917, in Garyville, Louisiana. [2] He attended Grenada High School in Grenada, Mississippi. [3]In 1960, Ross Barnett appointed him public relations director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state agency tasked with fighting desegregation and controlling civil rights activism.
The Hinds County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse building in Jackson, Mississippi. The Art Deco building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 31, 1986; and is a Mississippi Landmark since March 5, 1986. The courthouse was enlarged with wings on both sides.
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The Heidelberg Hotel was a hotel in Jackson, Mississippi, which operated from 1922 to 1974.The hotel was notable for several firsts: the first fireproof building in Mississippi and the first hotel to break the state's colour barrier in 1964 in reversing its policy to allow African-Americans to book hotel rooms.
Isaac Ross died in 1836 and was buried in the cemetery on his plantation. [3] [4] The Mississippi Colonization Society (of which he was a co-founder) commissioned a monument to him for US$25,000 (~$727,798 in 2023) two years later.
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. [4]
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