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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.
WDAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Laurel, Mississippi, United States, serving the Hattiesburg area as an affiliate of NBC and ABC.It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WLHA-LD (channel 18).
WNSL-FM went on the air March 10, 1959, a simulcast of WNSL AM 1260 (today's WHJA at 890 AM). WNSL-AM-FM was founded by Granville Walters, a former news reporter and host at WAML, the first radio station in Laurel.
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.
Laurel, Ellisville: JO: 1826: Formed from Covington and Wayne Counties: John Paul Jones (1747–1792), Revolutionary War naval captain who is known as the "Father of the American Navy" [c] 66,250: 699.7 sq mi (1,812 km 2) Kemper County: 069: De Kalb: KE: 1833: Formed from Lowndes, Rankin and Wayne Counties
Jasper County is part of the Laurel, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area. Bay Springs' growth soon surpassed that of Paulding. No roadway connected the two parts of the county until one was built in 1935–1936. The still largely rural county is the major producer in the state of gas and oil, located in the southeast, and of timber, cattle, and ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Richard M. Libenson joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 41.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
In 1843 a penitentiary in four city squares in central Jackson was developed as Mississippi's first state prison. [2] [3]The prison in Jackson was destroyed during the Civil War, and the state did not replace it for decades. [3]