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Walnut is located west of Corinth at the intersection of U.S. Route 72 and Mississippi Highway 15.The town's older business district is concentrated along Mississippi Highway 354, just east of its intersection with MS 15.
Walnut is an unincorporated community in Quitman County, Mississippi. Walnut is located on Mississippi Highway 322, southwest of Lambert. References
Walnut Grove is a town in Leake County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 510 at the 2020 census, a sharp decrease from 1,911 at the 2010 census, due to the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility being closed by the state in September 2016 because of repeated problems at the troubled facility. [ 2 ]
Walnut Hills, and the Spanish colonial Fort Nogales, were both named for a prominent grove of black walnut trees. [3]: 258 According to the Vicksburg Post, "...during the entire colonial period of our history, there was a great bend in the course of the Mississippi at the foot of the bluffs. The Walnut Hills, as this area was called, overlooked ...
WLRC is a radio station airing a brokered religious format licensed to Walnut, Mississippi, broadcasting on 850 kHz AM. The station is owned by Martha S. Clayton and Christopher R. Clayton. The station is owned by Martha S. Clayton and Christopher R. Clayton.
The Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, formerly the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility (WGYCF), is a state prison in Walnut Grove, Mississippi. It was formerly operated as a for-profit state-owned prison from 1996 to 2016. Constructed beginning in 1990, it was expanded in 2001 and later, holding male youth offenders.
The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, also called the Battle of Walnut Hills, [3] fought December 26–29, 1862, was the opening engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign during the American Civil War. Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton repulsed an advance by Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman that was intended to lead to the capture of ...
Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South [1]; Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) [2]