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The State Line Mob was an association of criminal elements that operated in the 1950s and 1960s at the Mississippi–Tennessee state line in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and McNairy County, Tennessee, along U.S. Route 45. The State Line Mob was involved in bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, tourist fleecing, robbery, and murder.
Alabama Governor (1951–1955) Gordon Persons. On July 22, 1954, a limited state of martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, by Governor Gordon Persons.The county, particularly Phenix City, had become lawless, and Persons lost faith in the local law enforcement, which had been implicated in illegal gambling syndicates, political corruption, and the murder of Albert Patterson, the ...
The Dixie Mafia is featured in the American TV shows Justified, Claws, The Righteous Gemstones and Young Sheldon. [17] [18] [19] It is an antagonist gang in the video game Mafia III. The fictitious leader of the Dixie Mafia in the game, Ritchie Doucet, is a prominent antagonist in the early section of the game.
Buford Pusser Home and Museum in Adamsville. Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 – August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee from 1964 to 1970 and constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. He is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices along the Mississippi–Tennessee ...
Bentley was born on August 15, 1909, in Phenix City. He was the youngest of seven sons. His father, Calvin Bentley, operated a grocery store. His mother was Minnie Bentley. [3] Bentley attended the high school in Phenix City, then Massey Business School in Columbus, Georgia, and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
It also opened up the gates of the city to the Mob. An aerial view of the newly completed Flamingo hotel complex, Las Vegas, circa 1950. The hotel is now surrounded by developments.
Phenix City: 4: Brownville–Summerville Historic District: November 3, 1983 : Roughly bounded by 15th and 23rd Sts. and 6th and 11th Aves. Phenix City: 5: Floyd–Newsome House: Floyd–Newsome House
Phenix City is located at (32.472822, −85.020121 It is the easternmost settlement in the state of Alabama as well as the Central Time Zone, but it and some other nearby areas unofficially observe Eastern Time, as these areas are part of the metropolitan area of the considerably larger city of Columbus, Georgia, which is in the Eastern Time Zone and adjacent to the city across the ...