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Amory / ˈ eɪ. m ər. i / is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 6,666 at the 2020 census , down from 7,316 in 2010 . Located in the northeastern part of the state near the Alabama border, it was founded in 1887 as a railroad town by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad .
Burned in 1940. Hurricane Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°10′01″N 91°08′53″W / 32.16681°N 91.14816°W / 32.16681; -91.14816 (Hurricane) Warren. Built 1827 by Joseph Davis, older brother of Jefferson Davis. All primary structures except for the library pavilion (pictured) were burned in 1862 by Federal troops. 78001581 ...
History. The monument was erected in Amory, Mississippi in 1924 by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, during a time when many similar Confederate monuments were being erected throughout the Southern United States. The statue was originally located at the intersection of Main Street and First Avenue, but in either 1939 ...
Lafayette. District associated with events surrounding the historic court-ordered admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi in 1962. 24. Charles McLaran House. Charles McLaran House. More images. January 3, 2001. (#76001102) Columbus.
Ethnic (African American/Military) website, 150 years of African-American military history; artifacts, photos and displays; has extensive set of Spanish–American War medals. Alice Moseley Folk Art and Antique Museum. Bay St. Louis. Hancock. Southeast. Art. website, museum located upstairs in former train depot.
Following the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, during the American Civil War, Columbus, Mississippi was selected as a hospital center to treat the wounded and sick soldiers from both the Confederate and Union armies. [2]: 127–131 Soldiers who did not survive medical care in Columbus were interred at Friendship Cemetery. When the war ended in ...
Hester Site (known by the two Smithsonian trinomials 22MO569 and 22MO1011) is a major prehistoric archaeological site in Monroe County, Mississippi.It is a multicomponent site whose major occupation took place during the Archaic period with artifacts dating from 9000 to 8000 BCE, and other occupations during the Woodland and Mississippian periods. [3]
John McCrady (September 11, 1911 – December 24, 1968) was a Louisiana painter and printmaker. McCrady was born in Canton, Mississippi and was raised in the American South. After winning a scholarship from the Art Students League of New York for his "Portrait of a Negro," McCrady studied art with Thomas Hart Benton and Kenneth Hayes Miller.