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Built from a Dentzel blueprint, the carousel's shelter building is a rectangular building approximately 70 by 75 by 22 feet (21.3 m × 22.9 m × 6.7 m) with board and batten siding. The exterior of the building is distinctive in appearance with a low, square, main block and a central section of octagonal roof with clerestory light windows.
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally.
O’Keefe Wildlife Management Area. Quitman County. 6,239 acres. Near Lambert the property was purchased in 2001 from the Mississippi Department of Corrections. 1,535 acres are dedicated to various wetlands. [6] Delta Region. Old River Wildlife Management Area. Pearl River County. 14,764 acres.
Map of Natchez, Mississippi, United States in May 1862; the "road to Hamburg" may have been a route between the slave markets at Forks of the Road and Hamburg, South Carolina. During the Civil War, Natchez remained largely undamaged. The city surrendered to Flag-Officer David G. Farragut after the fall of New Orleans in May 1862.
Oct. 31—The St. Joseph Animal Shelter faces numerous challenges, but City Manager Bryan Carter boils them down to a simple equation. "We have $1 million to solve a $5 million problem," he said.
Meridian is the eighth most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, [2] with a population of 35,052 at the 2020 census. [3] It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Along major highways, the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson; 154 mi (248 km ...
Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is one of seven refuges in the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex in Mississippi. Established in 1978, Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge encompasses 38,697 acres (156.60 km 2 ). Included in those acres is one of the largest blocks (21,000 acres) of bottomland forest in the lower ...
National Forests in Mississippi. De Soto National Forest, named for 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, is 518,587 acres (810 sq mi; 2,099 km 2) of pine forests in southern Mississippi. It is one of the most important protected areas for the biological diversity of the Gulf Coast ecoregion of North America. [2]