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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.
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 ]
Ten years later, Wilson opened his first catalog showroom. By 1982, Wilson's was the third-largest catalog showroom chain in the United States. [1] At its peak, it had 80 stores in 12 states. In 1985, rival chain Service Merchandise purchased all 80 of the Wilson's stores. [2] Wilson died on February 8, 2008, at age 80. [3]
For a century Laurel's only daily newspaper, the paper was founded as The Laurel Daily Argus August 11, 1911, by Edgar G. Harris. It later changed its name to the Laurel Daily Leader . The Laurel Morning Call and the Laurel Daily Leader combined to form an evening newspaper called The Laurel Leader-Call on February 2, 1930.
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.
Thomas Webber Wilson (January 24, 1893 – January 31, 1948) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Born in Coldwater, Mississippi , Wilson attended the public schools of his native city. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1913.
Wilson was born in New York City, one of five surviving children of Richard Thornton Wilson Sr. (1829–1910) and Melissa Clementine Johnston (1831–1908). [3] [1] Born in Georgia, his father was a multimillionaire railroad owner and investment banker in New York City who served as the commissary general of the Confederate States of America.
As of March 2017, three private prisons hold Mississippi prisoners: East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) -(unincorporated Lauderdale County) - Operated since July 2012 on a 10-year contract by Management and Training Corporation (MTC), which replaced GEO Group. East Mississippi is the state's main "special needs" facility (for inmates ...