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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM262K_gm-o-depot_Jackson-MS.html
History of the GM&O Depot Known at the date of its closing as the GM&O Depot, this passenger depot was constructed in 1927 by the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad (NOGN) and later served the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad (GM&N) as well as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22ES_central-station_Jackson-MS.html
This building was constructed in 1904 as the original fire station for the first paid City of Jackson Fire Department. With numerous additions, now removed, it served the city for almost seventy five years. Abandoned for three years, listed on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22C8_bobby-rush_Jackson-MS.html
Front Bobby Rush, a Louisiana native who lived for decades in Chicago, earned the title "king of the chitlin circuit" after relocating to Jackson in the early 1980s. Rush's distinctive "folk funk" style, featured on his record…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22BT_jackson-municipal-library-sit-in_Jackson-MS.html
Front On March 27, 1961, nine African American Tougaloo students quietly sat in at the Jackson Municipal Library, which served only white patrons. Pollce ordered them to Carver Library, the "colored" library, and when they refused, arrested t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM229L_jackson-state-tragedy_Jackson-MS.html
Tragedy struck Jackson State College on May 15, 1970, when Jackson police and Mississippi Highway Patrol officers suppressed student unrest with intense gunfire. Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green were killed and many injured when b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20TA_the-cotton-bale-battery_Jackson-MS.html
During the Siege of Jackson, July 10-17, 1863, Confederate Gen. William W. Loring's division held defensive positions extending east of the Canton Road to the Pearl River. A number of artillery batteries were posted on this line, the most prominen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20T8_first-presbyterian-church_Jackson-MS.html
Organized by five Jacksonians in 1837. Under the leadership of Rev. L.D. Halsey, a church building was constructed herein 1845-46 on land purchased from the state. Utilized for Christian worship until 1951.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZT4_woolworths-sit-in_Jackson-MS.html
(front) Woolworth's variety store was the scene of a pivotal event in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement on May 28, 1963. When three black Tougaloo College students sat down at the white lunch counter seeking service, the nonviolent protesters…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZT3_smith-park_Jackson-MS.html
Jackson's only surviving "public square" from Peter Vandorn's original city plan of 1822. Named for James Smith, Scottish manufacturer, Confederate benefactor, and Jackson resident, 1834-1855, who donated funds for a fence around the park in 1884.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZT2_mount-helm-baptist-church-original-site_Jackson-MS.html
On January 8, 1868, Thomas E. and Mary Helm, prominent members of First Presbyterian Church, donated this plot of land to African-Americans who had worshipped in the basement of First Baptist Church from 1835 to 1867. Mount Helm was built here in …
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