Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Amite County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1] There are 19 properties listed on the National Register in the ...
Amite County / ˈ eɪ. m ɛ t / is a county located in the state of Mississippi on its southern border with Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,720. [1] Its county seat is Liberty. [2] The county is named after the Amite River, which runs through the county. Amite County is part of the McComb, MS micropolitan statistical area.
The Amite County Courthouse in Liberty is the oldest in Mississippi. Erected in 1839, the courthouse was enlarged and modernized in 1936. [4] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Amite Female Seminary (also known as the 'Little Red Schoolhouse'), built in 1853, was a girls finishing school located in Liberty.
The Amite Female Seminary was a seminary in Liberty, Mississippi in Amite County. One building survives and is a Mississippi Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The seminary, founded in 1853, was burned by Union troops in 1863 but its music building survived [ 2 ] and is now a museum. [ 3 ]
The Confederate Monument in Liberty, Mississippi, United States is a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers from Amite County, Mississippi who died in the American Civil War. Dedicated in 1871, it is the first Confederate monument to be erected in Mississippi and one of the earliest such monuments in the United States.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Amite County Courthouse is in Liberty, Mississippi, the county seat for Amite County, Mississippi. It was built from 1839–1841 and is the oldest extant county courthouse building in the state. It is a Mississippi Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] A historical marker commemorates its history. [3]
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger in Liberty, Mississippi, who was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era. He had previously tried to register to vote and had allegedly talked to federal officials after witnessing the 1961 murder of Herbert Lee, an NAACP member, by E. H. Hurst, a white state legislator.