Lawrence County, Mississippi
Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,016. Its county seat is Monticello. The county is named for the naval hero James Lawrence. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.2%) is water. Major highways * U.S. Route 84 * Mississippi Highway 27 * Mississippi Highway 43 * Mississippi Highway 44 Adjacent counties * Simpson County (northeast) * Jefferson Davis County (east) * Marion County (southeast) * Walthall County (south) * Lincoln County (west) * Copiah County (northwest) Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 12,016 people, 4,849 households, and 3,385 families residing in the county. Communities Towns * Monticello * New Hebron * Silver Creek Unincorporated communities * Arm * Jayess * Oak Vale (partly in Jefferson Davis County) * Sontag * Topeka Education Public education is go ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lawrence County Courthouse (Mississippi)
The Lawrence County Courthouse is a government building for Lawrence County, Mississippi, Lawrence County, Mississippi, United States, located in the county seat of Monticello, Mississippi, Monticello. It was built in 1913 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1993. It was declared a Mississippi Landmark in 1986. See also * List of Mississippi Landmarks * National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Mississippi References Government buildings completed in 1913 Neoclassical architecture in Mississippi County courthouses in Mississippi Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi 1913 establishments in Mississippi Mississippi Landmarks National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marion County, Mississippi
Marion County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 24,441. Its county seat is Columbia, Mississippi, Columbia. Marion County is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader Francis Marion also known as The Swamp Fox. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water. Major highways * U.S. Highway 98 * Mississippi Highway 13 * Mississippi Highway 35 * Mississippi Highway 43 * Mississippi Highway 44 Adjacent counties * Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, Jefferson Davis County (north) * Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar County (east) * Pearl River County, Mississippi, Pearl River County (southeast) * Washington Parish, Louisiana (south) * Walthall County, Mississippi, Walthall County (west) * Lawrence County, Mississippi, Lawrence County (northwest) Demographics As of the 2020 United ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Silver Creek, Mississippi
Silver Creek is a town in Lawrence County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 210 at the 2010 census. Silver Creek is accessed from U.S. Route 84 and Mississippi Highway 43. The film '' Jesse James' Women'' (1954) was filmed in Silver Creek. History The area was settled around 1820 by the Kirby, Neal, Longino, Price and Williams families. Originally named "The Hall", it was changed in 1893 to Silver Creek for a nearby stream. A depot was established in Silver Creek when the Pearl & Leaf Rivers Railroad (later Illinois Central Railroad) was completed in 1903. In 1993, the Illinois Central Railroad abandoned the former Illinois Central line. The Columbia and Silver Creek Railroad was a shortline railroad that operated between Silver Creek and Columbia until 1992. The Rogers House, south of Silver Creek, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography Silver Creek is located in eastern Lawrence County at (31.604656, -90.001588). U.S. Route 84 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Hebron, Mississippi
New Hebron is a town in Lawrence County, Mississippi. The population was 386 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics At the 2000 census, there were 447 people, 179 households and 124 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 205 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 93.96% White, 5.59% African American, and 0.45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.34% of the population. There were 179 households, of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families. 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.09. 26.6% of the popu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Latino (U
Latino or Latinos may refer to: People Demographics * Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America * Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States ** Hispanic and Latino (ethnic categories) * The people or cultures of Latin America; ** Latin Americans Given name * Latino Galasso, Italian rower * Latino Latini, Italian scholar and humanist of the Renaissance * Latino Malabranca Orsini, Italian cardinal * Latino Orsini, Italian cardinal Other names * Joseph Nunzio Latino, Italian American Roman Catholic bishop * Latino (singer), Brazilian singer Linguistics * Latino-Faliscan languages, languages of ancient Italy * '' Latino sine flexione'', a constructed language * Mozarabic language, varieties of Ibero-Romance * A historical name for the Judeo-Italian languages Geography * Lazio region in Italy, anciently inhabited by the Latin people who founded the city of Rome. Media and entertainment Music * ''Latino'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hispanic (U
The term Hispanic () are people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an ethnic or meta-ethnic term. The term commonly applies to Spaniards and Spanish-speaking ( Hispanophone) populations and countries in Hispanic America (the continent) and Hispanic Africa (Equatorial Guinea and the disputed territory of Western Sahara), which were formerly part of the Spanish Empire due to colonization mainly between the 16th and 20th centuries. The cultures of Hispanophone countries outside Spain have been influenced as well by the local pre-Hispanic cultures or other foreign influences. There was also Spanish influence in the former Spanish East Indies, including the Philippines, Marianas, and other nations. However, Spanish is not a predominant language in these regions and, as a result, their inhabitants are not usually considered Hispanic. Hispanic culture is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pacific Islander (U
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of Oceania ( Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) or any other island located in the Pacific Ocean. Melanesians include the Fijians (Fiji), Kanaks (New Caledonia), Ni-Vanuatu (Vanuatu), Papua New Guineans (Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islanders (Solomon Islands), West Papuans (Indonesia's West Papua) and Moluccans (Indonesia's Maluku Islands). Micronesians include the Carolinians ( Caroline Islands), Chamorros ( Guam and Northern Mariana Islands), Chuukese ( Chuuk), I-Kiribati ( Kiribati), Kosraeans ( Kosrae), Marshallese ( Marshall Islands), Nauruans auru Palauans ( Palau), Pohnpeians ( Pohnpei), and Yapese ( Yap). Polynesians include the New Zealand Māori (New Zealand), Native Hawaiians (Hawaii), Rapa N ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Asian (U
Asian may refer to: * Items from or related to the continent of Asia: ** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia ** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia ** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asia ** Asian (cat), a cat breed similar to the Burmese but in a range of different coat colors and patterns * Asii (also Asiani), a historic Central Asian ethnic group mentioned in Roman-era writings * Asian option, a type of option contract in finance * Asyan, a village in Iran See also * * * East Asia * South Asia * Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ... * Asiatic (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Native American (U
Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and A .... Related terms and peoples include: Ethnic groups * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants * Indigenous peoples in Canada ** First Nations in Canada, Canadian Indigenous peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. ** Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers * Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica * Indi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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African American (U
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |