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- MS--MUW Name
So far, a committee looking into what the new name of the Mississippi University for Women should be has received about 150 suggestions.
- Lawmaker attempting to pass law banning the sell of babies in state of MS
One north Mississippi lawmaker has proposed a bill to make the sale of babies in the Magnolia State against the law.
- Around South Mississippi
Twelve Coast Electric crew members went to McComb on Thursday to help Magnolia Electric Power Association crews restore electric service to those affected by the severe winter weather.
- Check out the Magnolia Christmas Classic Dog Show
Q: Each December for the past several years there has been a dog show at the Mississippi Trade Mart.
- Outdoors in Brief: Orders taken for oak seedlings
Mississippi wildlife officials are in the fifth year of their Acorns for Wildlife program, which makes year-old, bare-root oak seedlings available to landowners/leaseholders. Thanks to sponsorship by the ...
- Remembering an old friend
Whenever I see dandelions and onion flowers, I think of Vin. He was my first best friend.
- Mississippi College hosts Youth Evangelism Challenge
About 1,900 students from churches all over the Magnolia State are headed to Mississippi College for the Youth Evangelism Challenge in late December.
- Leroy Morse donates flags for cemetery plots purchased by VFW post
Undaunted by the small turnout of helpers, Leroy Morse spent Sunday afternoon posting American flags he purchased on the graves of several veterans buried at Magnolia Cemetery.
- Voting problems still unresolved
A day after the general election ended with no contested races, election officials, political parties and voters rights groups have several voting issues they want addressed.
- Another Tremor in the Iceberg: Barack Obamaa s Candidacy and the Modern Civil Rights Movement
In the article below, written several weeks ago before Obama was President-elect, scholar Steven Niven, Executive Editor of the African American National Biography and the forthcoming Dictionary of African ...
- No items of support allowed near polls
With 3,000 Jones County absentee ballots already filed for today's election, local officials are expecting what could possibly be a record breaking turnout.
- Various agencies poised for possible election problems
The Secretary of States office says there are more than 189,000 new registered voters in Mississippi.
- Halloween masquerade ball set for Friday
The masks and Halloween costumes will be in full effect on Halloween night in downtown Jackson as the Old Capital Inn hosts its inaugural Masquerade Ball for the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children and the ...
- One voice can make difference
I will never forget the first time I voted. I turned 18 three weeks before the 1984 presidential election between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale.
- Indeck preparing mill site
Developers are hoping for a December groundbreaking for a new wood pellet mill in Pike County.
- Indeck preparing mill site
Developers are hoping for a December groundbreaking for a new wood pellet mill in Pike County.
- Laurel voter registration drive announced
LAUREL - The Progressive Club of Laurel will hold a voter registration drive at six locations in the city to promote voter education from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday.
- Mississippi's best kept secret
A new group of firefighter candidates marches toward a training exercise at the State Fire Academy in Pearl, Miss.
- Meistersingers take ride on 'Show Boat'
The Meistersingers prepare for the opening of its 13th concert season by presenting national singing stars Jami Rogers and Kevin Anderson as they make their Hattiesburg debut with the group at 7:30 p.m. Friday ...
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City DescriptionMagnolia is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,071 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pike County, which lies within the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Magnolia was founded in 1856 by Ansel H. Prewett, a local civic leader and cotton planter. Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad (now the Illinois Central Railroad) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town lots, which he sold to investors.
Prewett,while serving as temporary sheriff of Pike County, was killed by outlaws in the early 1870s escorting a prisoner on the very railroad that made Magnolia a viable community.
Magnolia grew rapidly in the 1860s, and in the late nineteenth century, Magnolia served as a popular small-town resort for wealthy New Orleaneans, who took trains north from New Orleans to enjoy Magnolia's fresh air and sparkling creeks. At one time early Magnolia boasted an opera house, skating rink, and several fancy hotels that catered largely to these tourists.
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