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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XQZ_fulton-grammar-school-historical_Fulton-MS.html
The Fulton Grammar School was designed by architect J.B. Lawson and built with Work Projects Administration assistance in 1939. This one-story brick building of nineteen rooms included a library, music room, kindergarten, office, and a 550-seat auditorium o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XR0_early-church-site-historical_Fulton-MS.html
In 1838 the Methodist Episcopal Church established the Bull Mountain Mission Circuit, which added the newly formed town of Fulton to its charge. Circuit riders began holding services in a log structure just northwest of this site. The first church on this s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XR1_aeolian-grove-historical_Fulton-MS.html
This home was built of hand-hewn, heart-of-pine lumber ca. 1836, and purchased in 1844 by John Tannehill. An 1887 remodeling added a second floor and a kitchen on the back connected by a breezeway. Also known as the Orr House, it is one of Fulton's oldest s…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XR6_tallahatchie-river-defense-line-historical_Abbeville-MS.html
Following their defeat in the battle of Corinth, Confederate forces, now under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, established a line of defense on the Tallahatchie River in November 1862. Union Gen. U.S. Grant, moving down the Mississippi Central Railroad, expecte…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XR7_mississipi-central-r-r-campaign-historical_Holly-Springs-MS.html
In November 1862, Col. Albert Lee's cavalry and Gen. Charles Hamilton's infantry division led the Union advance down the Mississipi Central R.R. Here, at Lumpkin's Mill, Lee's men met Col. William H. Jackson's Confederate cavalry. After a spirited fight on …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XRB_glenfield-baptist-church-historical_New-Albany-MS.html
Organized in 1890 was the Baptist Church of Christ at the Valley during pastorate of W.P. Hutchinson. Renamed Glenfield Baptist Church in 1908. Moved to this site under Dr. Percy Ray in 1941. Sanctuary built in 1964; partially destroyed by tornado and rebui…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XRC_stratford-company-historical_New-Albany-MS.html
Northeast Mississippi's upholstered furniture industry began here in 1948. Founded by Morris Furtorian, a Russian immigrant from Chicago, the Stratford Company utilized assembly line methods developed by the automotive industry, an innovation that revolutio…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XRD_blue-springs-historical_Blue-Springs-MS.html
First settled as Ellistown in 1838, Blue Springs was formed when the Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad was built in 1888, bypassing Ellistown. Residents then migrated closer to the railroad. In 2007 Blue Springs became the home of Toyota Motor M…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XRR_nash-street-historic-district-historical_Starkville-MS.html
This neighborhood was Starkville's first subdivision. Most of these houses were built between 1932 and 1939 during the Great Depression. Houses in the block-long historic district are of Tudor Revival, Craftsman, and Colonial Revival styles.
Listed in the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1XRS_the-borden-milk-plant-historical_Starkville-MS.html
The Borden Company opened this milk condensing plant in April 1926. The plant helped bring over 1,200 dairy farm and milk distributing operations to Oktibbeha County. The plant closed in 2005, and the property was sold in 2009. Following extensive renovatio…