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The Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands are a chain of barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama enclosing the Mississippi Sound.The major islands are Cat Island, Ship Island, Horn Island, Petit Bois Island, and Dauphin Island; in the early 20th century the chain also included the Isle of Caprice, which has since been submerged.
Corinth is a city in and the county seat of Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. [4] The population was 14,573 at the 2010 census. [ 5 ] Its ZIP codes are 38834 and 38835.
Mississippi has a lot to offer and here are 10 musts to truly experience what the state has to offer.
Mississippi Highway 145 (MS 145) is the designation for the parts of the old U.S. Route 45 (US 45) roadbed that the state continues to maintain or has designated. Those ten sections travel through Waynesboro, near Boice, through Shubuta, from De Soto to Meridian, through Shuqualak, through Macon, through Aberdeen, through Nettleton, from Shannon to Booneville, and through Corinth.
The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, romanized: Dioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and "separates" the Peloponnese peninsula from the rest of the Greek mainland
U.S. Route 45 Alternate (US 45 Alternate, also signed as US 45A) is a 62.9-mile-long (101.2 km) alternate route of US 45 in northeastern Mississippi, running from Brooksville, through West Point, to Shannon, which lies just south of Tupelo.
In December 2016 Mississippi acquired the 492 acres that BP had purchased from the Brodie family in 2011. This section of East Beach was added to the Cat Island Coastal Preserve. [5] Cat Island (left) before (June 2004, bottom) and after (September 2005, top) Hurricane Katrina. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina shrank the island by eliminating the ...
The Isthmus with the Canal of Corinth close to where the diolkos ran. Strategic position of the Isthmus of Corinth between two seas. The Diolkos (Δίολκος, from the Greek dia διά, "across", and holkos ὁλκός, "portage machine" [1]) was a paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth.