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Lorman, MS
Lorman is an unincorporated community located in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. Lorman is approximately north of Fayette, near Highway 61 on Mississippi Highway 552. Lorman is the nearest community to Alcorn State University, in Claiborne County, the alma mater of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair. Its ZIP code is 39096. History Lorman is located on the former Illinois Central Railroad. A post office operated under the name Lee from 1884 to 1899 and first began operating under the name Lorman in 1899. Lorman is home to multiple historic plantations, including Blantonia Plantation, Canemount Plantation, China Grove, Prospect Hill Plantation, and Rosswood. Education Jefferson County School District operates public schools in all of the county. The county is in the district of Copiah–Lincoln Community College, and has been since 1967. Notable people * Steve McNair, NFL player * Bill Foster, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame and former head ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as the military). There are many unincorporated communities and areas in the United States and Canada, but many countries do not use the concept of an unincorporated area. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois Central Railroad
The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Another line connected Chicago west to Sioux City, Iowa (1870), while smaller branches reached Omaha, Nebraska (1899) from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1877), from Cherokee, Iowa. The IC also ran service to Miami, Florida, on trackage owned by other railroads. The IC, founded in 1851, pioneered the financing later used by several long distance U.S. railroads whose construction was partially financed through a Land Grant Act of 1850, federal land grant. In 1998, the Canadian National Railway, via Grand Trunk Corporation, acquired control of the IC, and absorbed its operations the following year. The Illinois Central Railroad maintains its corporate existence as a non-operating subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cane Ridge, Mississippi
Cane Ridge is an archaic placename of Jefferson County, Mississippi Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi; its western border is formed by the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,260, making it the fourth-least populous county in Mississippi. Until 182 ..., United States. According to a local historian, Cane Ridge was one of five main geographic regions of antebellum Jefferson County and was considered A log schoolhouse and a church were established at Cane Ridge about 1818. According to the WPA history of Jefferson County, The WPA interviewed one old resident who stated, Services were held in the Cane Ridge Methodist Church, which stood "northwest of the town of Lorman" until 1846. A new church was established "where Cane Ridge Cemetery is now located" but this burned or was burned down during the American Civil War. The church was rebuilt in 1867 from materials salvaged from another disused church. The church mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball Hall Of Fame
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by a private foundation. It serves as the central collection and gathering space for the history of baseball in the United States displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport. The Hall's motto is "Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations". Cooperstown is often used as shorthand (or a metonym) for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The museum also established and manages the process for honorees into the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established in 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, an heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark sought to bring tourists to the village hurt by the Great Depression, which reduced the local tourist trade, and Prohibition, which devastated the local hops industry. Clark constructed the Hall of Fame's buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Foster (baseball)
William Hendrick Foster (June 12, 1904 – September 16, 1978) was an American left-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues in the 1920s and 1930s. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996. Foster was the much-younger half-brother of Rube Foster, a Negro league player, pioneer, and fellow Hall of Famer. Early life Foster was born in 1904 in Calvert, Texas. He had the same father as Rube Foster, who was a Negro league player, manager and owner. Rube Foster was a key figure in the founding of the Negro National League. Bill Foster's mother died when he was four years old, so he was raised by his grandparents in Rodney, Mississippi. He did not meet his older half-brother until he was a teenager. Professional career Foster played for the Memphis Red Sox in 1923 and 1924, the Chicago American Giants from 1925 to 1930—and again from 1932 to 1935 and in 1937—the Homestead Grays and Kansas City Monarchs in 1931, and the Pittsburgh Crawfords in 1936. Fost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copiah–Lincoln Community College
Copiah–Lincoln Community College (Co–Lin) is a public community college with its main campus in Wesson, Mississippi. The Co–Lin District serves a seven-county area including Adams County, Mississippi, Adams, Copiah County, Mississippi, Copiah, Franklin County, Mississippi, Franklin, Jefferson County, Mississippi, Jefferson, Lawrence County, Mississippi, Lawrence, Lincoln County, Mississippi, Lincoln and Simpson County, Mississippi, Simpson counties. The college provides academic college-level courses for the first two years of four-year degree programs as well as career and technical programs. History Copiah–Lincoln Agricultural High School, through the joint efforts of Copiah and Lincoln Counties, was established in the fall of 1915 in Wesson, Mississippi, at the edge of Copiah County. Copiah–Lincoln Junior College was organized during the summer of 1928. Since its establishment in 1928, Copiah–Lincoln has continued to grow in size and prestige and now occupies a prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson County School District (Mississippi)
The Jefferson County School District is a public school district headquartered in Fayette, Mississippi (USA). The district's boundaries parallel that of Jefferson County. Governance The headquarters are in the Robert L. Williams Educational Administration Building in Fayette. Schools *Jefferson County High School ::In 2022 Jefferson County High School had 305 students. 98.7 percent were black. Test scores at the school in math and reading are well below the state average. It used to be called Fayette High School. Tigers are the mascot. The school has won two district championships and no state championships in football. State legislator Jeffery Harness and football player Louis Green are alumni. *Jefferson County Junior High School *Jefferson County Upper Elementary School *Jefferson County Elementary School Demographics 2006-07 school year There were a total of 1,473 students enrolled in the Jefferson County School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosswood
Rosswood is a historic Southern plantation located off of Mississippi Highway 552, in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is also a Mississippi Landmark. History It was built as a cotton plantation for Dr Walter Ross Wade (1810–1862) and his wife Mabella Chamberlain. The architectural style of the plantation house is Greek Revival. It has 14 rooms, with high ceilings, ten fireplaces, columned galleries, a winding staircase and original slave quarters. Before the American Civil War, Wade and his wife held parties and balls and entertained guests. The property spanned and had 105 slaves. It is now only . During the Civil War, it was used as a hospital for the Confederate States Army. In 1975, Colonel Walt Hylander and his wife Jean purchased the plantation and restored it. It was opened to the public as a house museum, and used for weddings and special occasions. In March 2019, Rosswood perman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect Hill Plantation
The Prospect Hill Plantation was a former 5,000-acre plantations in the American South, plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. In the early 19th century, the plantation was owned by planter Isaac Ross (planter), Isaac Ross of South Carolina, who Slavery in the United States, enslaved African American people to farm cotton as a cash crop. In 1830, Ross and other major Planter (American South), planters co-founded the Mississippi chapter of the American Colonization Society, which sought to move enslaved people to Mississippi-in-Africa, a colony on the coast of what became Liberia. In 1836, Ross died, and his will freed those enslaved people who agreed to move to Mississippi-in-Africa, and provided for sale of his plantation to fund their move. His will was contested and litigated by a grandson and heir who occupied the plantation while the court case and appeals were litigated. The will was finally upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1845. That year, the Plantation house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Grove (Lorman, Mississippi)
China Grove is a historic building in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi.Nancy Capace, ''Encyclopedia of Mississippi'', North American Book Distribution, 2001, p. 49/ref> Overview It was designed by architects Wiley McDonald and Willis McDonald. The architectural style is Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... since April 3, 1980. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Houses in Jefferson County, Mississippi Greek Revival houses in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canemount Plantation
The Canemount Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Lorman, Mississippi. Location It is located on Route 2 in the town of Lorman, in Jefferson County, Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ....Jack Baldwin, ''Baldwin's Guide to Inns of Mississippi'', Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, pp. 75-7/ref> It is one mile north of the town of Alcorn, Mississippi, Alcorn and four miles away the Windsor Ruins.Cathy Summerlin, ''Traveling the Trace: A Complete Tour Guide to the Historic Natchez Trace from Nashville to Natchez'', Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 199/ref> It spans 10,000 acres of land. History The Plantation house in the Southern United States, plantation mansion was built for the Murdoch family in 1855. It was designed in the Italianate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blantonia Plantation
Blantonia Plantation House is a historic Southern plantation of Blantonia in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi. John Blanton and Martha Belton "Patsy" Whitaker established the plantation in the early 1800s. John Blanton, originally from Virginia, moved to Kentucky about 1800 and eventually the family moved and established the plantation Blantonia, just south of Vicksburg. Blantonia Plantation House was initially constructed in 1812 as a pile-and-a-half "expanded I-house". Their son William Whitaker Blanton is listed in census records in Jefferson County, would establish the second Blantonia plantation, known as Blantonia plantation on Bachelor's Bend and referenced as Bachelor's Bend plantation in Hall v. United States, 92 U.S. 27 (1875). Another large, Blantonia plantation was also established in the area of Greenville, Mississippi in Washington County from a United States land grant in 1828 to the north along the Mississippi River. Throughout their history, the planta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
