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Bay Springs is a city in and the western county seat of Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,670 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 1,786 at the 2010 census. [4] State highways 15 and 18 intersect at the city. It is part of the Laurel, Mississippi (in Jones County) micropolitan area.
The dam forms Bay Springs Lake. Originally named Bay Springs Lock and Dam, the structure was renamed for Jamie Whitten , who served Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives for over 50 years (as of 2008 [update] , Whitten had the longest tenure of any Representative in history).
Bay Springs Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is impounded by the Jamie Whitten Lock and Dam . The lake is approximately 9 miles (14 km) long, between waterway mile markers 412 at the dam, and 421 near the entrance to the divide cut .
Jasper County is located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.At the 2020 census, the population was 16,367. [1] In 1906, the state legislature established two county courts, one at the first county seat of Paulding in the eastern part of the county and also one at Bay Springs in the west, where the railroad had been constructed. [2]
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
Mineral Wells is an unincorporated community located in central DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi/Tennessee border, just south of Memphis and approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Olive Branch on Mississippi Highway 178. Mineral Wells is located on the former St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. [2]
A bottling works was founded the next year and the spring water was soon shipped throughout the country. The Stafford Springs Hotel opened in 1899. The shareholders sold the company in 1918, and visitors stopped arriving to the springs during the Great Depression. [2] The hotel continued to be opened yearly from April to September. [3]
An analysis of the spring water, made by the National Bureau of Standards, listed eight chemicals, plus a small amount of radium. In the 1890s, a pamphlet advertised the advantages of Ramsey Mineral Springs water. The water was publicized for treating skin disorders, blood and bowel diseases, and liver and kidney complaints.