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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Shelby Farms is a public park located in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, in East Memphis. It is one of the largest urban parks in the US and the world, at a size of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) and covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (341 ha).
Near Columbia: Southwest Region Mason Creek Wildlife Management Area Greene County: 28,000 acres Near Laurel: Southeast Region Muscadine Farms Wildlife Management Area Washington County 3,046 acres Near Greenville: Delta Region Nanih Waiya Wildlife Management Area Neshoba County and Winston County: 7,655 acres Near Philadelphia: East-central Region
Black Seeds Urban Farm, an urban garden in the Greenlaw neighborhood of Uptown Memphis, was one of five gardens in North America to receive a grant from Fiskars, an international garden tool brand ...
That's one way to characterize these Memphis attractions, which are odd, strange, unusual — but perhaps overlooked by Memphians 5 offbeat things to do in Memphis, from a miniature Mississippi to ...
The HSNF is located in northern Mississippi and is divided into two major sections. The largest section lies to the southeast of the city of Holly Springs and straddles U.S. Highway 78 . The second section 20,776 acres (84.08 km 2 ), sits about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the main section, in Yalobusha County , between Coffeeville and Oakland ...
Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously paid local Black farmworkers ...
Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.