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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Z9_tinsley-oil-field_Bentonia-MS.html
Discovered 5 miles west of here on Sept. 5, 1939, Tinsley was the first oil field east of the Mississippi River in the Gulf Coast region. During the first 50 years, 220,000,000 barrels of oil were produced.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQM_jack-owens_Bentonia-MS.html
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Jack Owens became one of Mississippi's most venerated blues artists in the 1980s and ?90s after spending most of his life as a farmer in Yazoo County. Born November 17, 1904, or 1906 according to some sources, Owens did not perform outside…
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The Blue Front Café opened in 1948 under the ownership of Carey and Mary Holmes, an African American couple from Bentonia. In its heyday the Blue Front was famed for its buffalo fish, blues, and moonshine whiskey. One of the couple’s son…
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The haunting quality of Nehemiah "Skip" James music earned him a reputation as one of the great early Mississippi bluesmen. James (1902-1969) grew up at the Woodbine Plantation and as a youth learned to play both guitar and piano…
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Erbauer der StrasseWaidbruck-Kastelruthim Jahre 1887Kastelruth 30.August 1987
Engish translation:
Joseph RiehlBuilder of the Waidbruck-Kastelruth Roadin the year 1887Kastelruth 30.August 1987