Ads
related to: ellisville ms
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ellisville is a town in and the first county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,448 at the time of the 2010 census, [ 2 ] up from 3,465 at the 2000 census. The Jones County Courthouse is located here, as is much of the county government.
Jones County Junior College as viewed from U.S. Route 11. Jones College is a public community college in Ellisville, Mississippi.It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and serves its eight-county district consisting of Clarke, Covington, Greene, Jasper, Jones, Perry, Smith, and Wayne Counties.
Ellisville, the county seat, was named for Powhatan Ellis, a member of the Mississippi Legislature who claimed to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas. During the economic hard times in the 1830s and 1840s, there was an exodus of population from Southeast Mississippi, both to western Mississippi and Louisiana in regions opened to white ...
A lynching in Ellisville, Mississippi, was announced on the front page of the Jackson paper and all the factories within fifty miles closed so the workers could attend. As many as ten thousand ...
The Jones County School District is a public school district based in Ellisville, Mississippi (). [1]Located in Jones County, it includes portions of Hattiesburg, as well as the municipalities of Ellisville, Sandersville, and Soso, and the census-designated places of Moselle, Ovett, and Sharon, as well as the Jones County portion of Eastabuchie.
Newton Knight (November 10, 1829 – February 16, 1922) was an American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist in Mississippi, best known as the leader of the Knight Company, a band of Confederate Army deserters who resisted the Confederacy during the Civil War.