Yalobusha County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

It is situated on the south bank of the Yalobusha River.

Coffeeville is a town in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

Oakland is a town in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

Tillatoba is a town in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

Water Valley is a city in Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

The river is 188 miles ( 303 km ) long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood.

Enid Lake is a lake that is located mostly in Yalobusha County in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

The Yalobusha River is a river, long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States.

Much of the Yalobusha's course through Calhoun County has been straightened and channelized ; this section of the river is also known as the " Yalobusha River Canal.

In descending order of land area the forest is located in parts of Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Yalobusha, Tippah, and Union counties.

Cecil Donald " Don " Briscoe ( born March 20, 1940, Yalobusha County, Mississippi — died October 31, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (# 2 ) on Days of Our Lives, and, from 1968 – 1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on Dark Shadows.

The name " Yalobusha " comes from the Choctaw word yalooboshi, meaning " little tadpole ", from yalooba, " tadpole ", and-ushi, " diminutive ".

In 1852, Calhoun County was formed, and a tier of townships on the eastern border of Yalobusha County were taken to form part of the new county.

In March, 1873, Yalobusha County was divided into two judicial districts, and Water Valley was named the county seat of the second judicial district.

In the early 1950s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on two flood control reservoirs in and around Yalobusha County, much to the distress of county farmers who lost thousands of acres of fertile bottom land.

Yalobusha County was officially organized and its first officials elected on February 21, 1834.

Yalobusha County had a population of 12, 248 when its first census was taken in 1840.

James K. Polk of Tennessee, president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, was prominent early Yalobusha County landowner.

In 1867, Yalobusha County's first manufacturing industry, Yacona Mills, was the world's largest manufacturer of twine.

Grenada County was formed in 1870 and included nearly two tiers of townships which had formerly been the southern part of Yalobusha County.

In 1880, Yalobusha County's population was 15, 649.

Little industry remained in Yalobusha County after World War II, and by 1950 the county's population was down to 15, 191.

Yalobusha County's population was 12, 502 in 1960, and in 1970, it bottomed out at 11, 915.

The college was founded in 1851 as the Yalobusha Baptist Female Institute, and was taken over by the Methodists in 1882.

Vardaman was born near Edna, Jackson County, Texas and moved in 1868 with his parents to Yalobusha County, Mississippi.

The Yalobusha River rises in Chickasaw County, northwest of the town of Houston, and flows generally west-southwestwardly through Calhoun, Grenada and Leflore Counties, past the town of Grenada.

In 1833, the Mississippi Legislature authorized the formation of 17 counties, including Yalobusha, on what until recently had been Indian land.

The line as surveyed cut almost a perfect diagonal across the area of the present day Yalobusha County.

Because the town overlapped the Yalobusha-Lafayette County line, the legislature gave Yalobusha a two-mile strip of land from the southern portion of Lafayette County.

Yalobusha County's population peaked in 1910, with the census showing a population of 21, 519.

Between 1926 – 1928, Yalobusha County suffered two tremendous economic setbacks.

Since the 1960s, Yalobusha County has attracted new industries to boost its economic growth.

Beginning at the point where the line between ranges 9 and 10 strikes the center of section 6, and running thence south with the said range line, and from its termination in a direct line to the northern boundary of Tallahatchie County and thence along the northern boundary of Tallahatchie and Yalobusha counties, to the center of range 5 west ; thence north through the center of range 5 west, according to the sectional lines, to the center of township six ; thence west through the center of township six, according to the sectional lines, to the beginning.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

He is a native of New Orleans and attended Allen Elementary school, Fortier High school and Soule business college.

Dr. Hester, of Princeton, N.J., is a native of Chester, Pa. He joined NYU in September, 1960.

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Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

Suppose it is something right on the planet, native to it.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The aardvark ( Orycteropus afer ) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.

The aardwolf ( Proteles cristata ) is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East Africa and Southern Africa.

Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.

For most speakers ( even native speakers ), this form of the language is generally difficult to understand, as it contains many highly specialised terms for diplomatic, internal, official, and military matters.

There is a monument to him in his native village.

Many contemporary Pueblo peoples object to the use of the term Anasazi, although there is still controversy among them on a native alternative.

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Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

Agapanthus umbellatus ) is a native of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

The genus is native from east Asia south to northern Australasia.

The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.

The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.