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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZTC_chickasaw-bayou-battle_Vicksburg-MS.html
Here on December 27-29, 1862 General W.T. Sherman with 32,000 men was routed by a defending C.S.A. force of 9,000 led by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. Union losses were 9 to 1.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM20Z4_payne-field-site_West-Point-MS.html
Operated
May 1918 - March 1920.
125 Curtiss JN-4 Planes
533 acres. Cost $891,340
About 1,500 pilots trained.
Name for
Capt. Dewitt J. Payne
Marker erected August 23, 1968
50th Anniversary and Reunion
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2148_mary-holmes-college_West-Point-MS.html
Named for Mary Holmes of Rockford, Illinois, who dedicated her life to education, this school was founded in Jackson in 1892 by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Board of Missions for Freedmen as a seminary for African American women. Mary Holmes Seminary mo…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM214A_prehistoric-indian-burial-mound_West-Point-MS.html
Constructed ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 400 for the burial of high-status members of an unknown local tribal group. An associated village site lies across the highway to the Southwest.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM214K_thomas-t-gore_Calhoun-City-MS.html
First settler in what is now Calhoun City. Born 1776. Left S. Carolina in 1817 for Alabama. Came to Mississippi in 1840. Pioneer, politician, patriot, planter. Died October 20, 1855. Buried on old homesite ½ mi. NW.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM214N_egypt-station_Okolona-MS.html
During a raid in the winter of 1864-65, Union Brig. Gen. Benjamin Grierson's cavalry encountered Confederates at Egypt Station on the Mobile & Ohio R.R. The Confederate force included a large number of former Union prisoners of war released on condition tha…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM217F_hernando-de-soto-commemorative-bridge_Dundee-MS.html
The Hernando de Soto expedition to explore and claim the Southeast for Spain crossed the Mississippi River on June 18, 1541, at a point in northwestern Mississippi between Sunflower Landing in Coahoma County to the south and Bass Landing in DeSoto County to…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM217O_holt-collier_Greenville-MS.html
Born a slave in 1846, Collier served as a Confederate sharpshooter and cavalryman. Famed as a bear hunter, he guided Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on a hunt near Onward, MS. in 1902. When Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear Collier had roped, cartoonists coined th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM217P_little-italy_Greenville-MS.html
By 1920 this southern section of the city of Greenville was known as "Little Italy" by the Italian-speaking immigrants who settled in the Miss. Delta. These immigrants endured social as well as physical hardships in achieving the "American Dream." This mark…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM217S_washington-county-courthouse_Greenville-MS.html
This courthouse was built ca. 1891 in the Richardson Romanesque architectural style. The courthouse was remodeled in 1930, and additions were made in 1950 and 1976. The courthouse has retained many of the original elements of its architectural style, includ…