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Mark Landis was born in Norfolk, Virginia.His grandfather, Arthur Landis, was a director at the now defunct Auburn Automobile company. [2] His father, Arthur Landis Jr., a lieutenant (and later lieutenant commander) in the US Navy, married his mother, Jonita (1930–2010), in 1952.
Confederate Monument, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Building, dedicated June 1891. [2] [3] [4] In front of the Old Capitol Museum.Unusual in that a former slave and Republican member of the legislature, John F. Harris, spoke passionately in favor of it, while some whites spoke against it.
The Laurel Central Historic District is a historic district in Laurel, Mississippi, U.S. It includes 369 governmental, commercial, religious and residential buildings designed in the Neoclassical , Shingle , Queen Anne , Bungalow , and American Craftsman architectural styles. [ 2 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jones 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.
Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. [4] Laurel is northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first county courthouse. It has the second county courthouse, as Jones County has two judicial districts.
Jasper County is located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.At the 2020 census, the population was 16,367. [1] In 1906, the state legislature established two county courts, one at the first county seat of Paulding in the eastern part of the county and also one at Bay Springs in the west, where the railroad had been constructed. [2]
The Laurel Hill Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Natchez, Mississippi, is a historic Southern plantation. It was nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, [2] and was listed in 1982. [1] The main house of the plantation no longer exists.
Abbott, Dorothy. ed. Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986). Baldwin, Joseph G. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches (1853), on the boom times of the 1830s online edition; Bond, Bradley G. ed. Mississippi: A Documentary History (2003) excerpt and text search; Evers, Charles.