* Itawamba Community College, campuses located in Fulton and Tupelo, Mississippi

Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821.

Category: Jefferson College ( Mississippi ) alumni

Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college located in Jackson, Mississippi.

One of only 24 private colleges nationwide and the only college in Mississippi named a " Best Buy " in the 2010 edition of Fiske's Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.

The Majors had a fierce football and basketball rivalry with Mississippi College in nearby Clinton through the 1950s before competition was suspended after an infamous student brawl at a basketball game.

Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the alleged theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students.

The rivalry was considered by many as the best in Mississippi, featuring a prank by Mississippi College students who painted " TO HELL WITH MILSAPS " ( sic ) on the Millsaps Observatory.

Mausoleum on the campus of Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, containing the graves of Major Reuben Webster Millsaps and his wife.

Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

* February 28 – Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature ( under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi ).

Beginning in 1956, Clyde Kennard, a black Korean War-veteran, tried to enroll at Mississippi Southern College ( now the University of Southern Mississippi ) under the GI Bill at Hattiesburg.

Clay County is within the service area of the East Mississippi Community College system.

Founded as the Missouri Dental College in 1866, the Washington University School of Dental Medicine was the first dental school west of the Mississippi River and the sixth dental school in the U. S. The school closed in 1991.

All involved knew how violently Dr. William David McCain and the white political establishment of Mississippi had recently reacted to similar efforts by Clyde Kennard to enroll at Mississippi Southern College ( now the University of Southern Mississippi ).

Wiley left in 1968, the same year Mississippi Valley State College entered.

The following year, Mississippi College and Northwestern Louisiana ( NWLA, now Northwestern State ) were admitted.

Mississippi College dropped to Division III at the end of 1995 – 96 and was replaced by Christian Brothers to keep the Conference at 16 schools.

* Northwest Mississippi Community College

* Legion State Park, located in the red hill country of Louisville, Mississippi, and area originally inhabited by the Choctaw Indian Nation

Jacoby founded the first Methodist Church West of the Mississippi River, originally known as Bethel Church, now known as Memorial United Methodist Church, in St. Louis in 1841.

In June 1865, three months after Robert E. Lee ’ s surrender at Appomattox, General W. T. Sherman was given his first postwar command, originally called the Military Division of the Mississippi and later the Military Division of the Missouri.

This originally was the Georgia and North Carolina border all the way back to the Mississippi River, until Tennessee was divided from North Carolina, and the Yazoo companies induced the legislature of Georgia to pass an act, approved by the governor in 1795, to sell the greater part of Georgia's territory presently comprising Alabama and Mississippi.

Channel 10 was originally often used for highway communications east of the Mississippi River, and channel 19 west of the Mississippi ; channel 19 then became the preferred highway channel in most areas, as it did not have adjacent-channel interference problems with channel 9.

Choctaw mythology is related to Choctaws, a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States ( Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana ).

Genevieve was originally an off-shoot of the older French communities on the east bank of the Mississippi River — Cahokia, Kaskaskia, village of Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, and St. Philippe.

" Therefore the State of Mississippi originally performed executions of condemned criminals in their counties of conviction.

His seminal book on the topic, Legend of the Free State of Jones, originally published by University Press of Mississippi in 1984 ( in reprint as of 2009 ), was the first scholarly book on the events in Jones County before and during the American Civil War.

The western part of the county on the Mississippi River is part of the American Bottom floodplain, while the eastern portion of the county is relatively flat and was originally prairie.

In the late 18th century, Natchez was the starting point of the Natchez Trace overland route, a Native American trail originally established by migrating animals, most likely buffalo, which ran from Natchez to Nashville through what is now Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.

The figures were quoted in the Madison Land Company's brochure by Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson, the second Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Mississippi and a Madison resident, who originally came from Wisconsin.

When another Mississippi county was created in 1873 from land originally located in DeSoto, Marshall, and Tunica counties, Coldwater found itself to be a part of the newly formed Tate County.

Hattiesburg is home to The University of Southern Mississippi ( originally known as Mississippi Normal College ) and William Carey University ( formerly William Carey College ).

The town was established in 1882 as a railroad stop along the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad line ( later the Illinois Central Railroad ) and originally named Hall's Station in honor of Hansford R. Hall, one of the founders.

The bridge, which is the only floating bridge east of the Mississippi River, was originally built in 1820 by Luther Adams and his neighbors.

Fort Snelling, originally known as Fort Saint Anthony, was a military fortification located at the confluence of the Minnesota River and Mississippi River in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

The Chickasaw are Native American people of the United States, who originally resided along the Tennessee River west of Huntsville, Alabama, covering parts of Mississippi and Tennessee.

The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States ( Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana ).

* Fourth Corps Area replaced the Southeastern Department based in Charleston, South Carolina and was originally headquartered there then transferred to Atlanta Georgia, and encompassed the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

Lamar was originally interred at Riverside Cemetery in Macon, Georgia, but was reinterred at St. Peter's Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1894.