Napoleon
The town of Napoleon was first settled here in 1767 as a 640-acre British land grant to John Claudius Favre. In 1861 it was sold to Simon Favre, who built his home and businesses here. Residents...
- mississippi
- early settlement
- space
Protected Tract of Cook Forest
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED IN 1951 BY FRIENDS IN HONOR OF MR. AND MRS. ARTHUR E. BRAUN WHO PURCHASED THIS TRACT OF 268 ACRES AND 92 RODS TO PREVENT ITS IMMINENT DESTRUCTION BY LUMBERING,...
Ken Hunter
In loving memory of Ken Hunter He embodied the best of our community: Kind, Caring and Always Willing to go the Extra Mile for Kids Rest in Peace Good Friend You will always be in our hearts
DAMBUSTERS - 1943
Submitted by Rob Sweeney
John Wesley Fairley
1840-1918 Born a slave, John Wesley "Wes” Fairley served with the 74th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. While guarding Confederate prisoners on Ship Island, Fairley recognized Lorenzo...
- mississippi
- civil war
Flint Creek Post Office
The Flint Creek Post Office was established in the early 1840s and was the only post office in the Piney Woods between Augusta and the Gulf Coast before the Civil War. First located on Flint...
- mississippi
- post office
Site of Bank of Mississippi
Chartered in 1809 as the only bank in Mississippi Territory and given a monopoly as the official state bank in 1818. It occupied this site in 1826 but was supplanted by Planters' Bank in...
- mississippi
- bank
"The Harvey Battle"
In 1848, James Harvey killed two members of the Copeland Gang in a dispute over the deed to his property on Red Creek. Seeking revenge, James Copeland and three of his men waited in ambush inside...
- mississippi
- land battle
- fued
Original King's Daughters Hospital
Dr. John H. Johnson and Dr. Dudley W. Jones opened the area's first hospital in a two-story residence at this site in 1909. In 1913, the Willing Hearts Circle purchased the equipment, rented...
- mississippi
- hospital
- lincoln county
- brookhaven
Trackways
- ireland
- peatland park
- nature
Morris Manor
MORRIS MANOR This Building is dedicated to Beverly & Charles R. Morris as gratitude for their tireless support for CAMBA and affordable housing in Brooklyn October 2, 2008Submitted by @lampbane
- new york
- brooklyn
- flatbush
- affordable housing
- camba
Charles Marega
CHARLES MAREGA (1871-1939) This Italian-Canadian sculptor created a number of outstanding monuments in the three decades after his arrival in British Columbia in 1909. Working first in the...
- vancouver
- italian
- sculptor
- charles marega
Bud Scott
Clarence “Bud” Scott, Sr., led one of the most popular dance bands in the Mississippi-Louisiana region for several decades beginning around 1900. Scott (1876-1938), a lifelong Natchez...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
"The Natchez Burning"
(side 2)"The Natchez Burning" Few events in African-American history have been as memorialized as the Natchez fire of 1940. In addition to a monument, markers, museum exhibits, and annual local...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- disaster
761st Tank Battalion
From 1940-1944, Louisiana hosted a series of military maneuvers designed to train soldiers for all aspects of Army Ground Forces operations. Approximately 75,000 black soldiers maneuvered...
- louisiana
- wwii
- african americans