This native son, through his celebrity status as a television and motion picture actor, has brought recognition to this community. Because his life was shaped by his heritage, he returns to his grassroots each year to visit family and friends. This . . . — — Map (db m170481) HM
Named for George Washington Carver, Carver
Central High School was built in 1956-1957 and
was Covington County's only high school for
African Americans. After completing the ninth
grade, students from Hopewell, Mt. Olive,
Seminary and . . . — — Map (db m312144) HM
Covington County was established in 1819, and the county seat was located here in 1829. This courthouse square has been the site of three courthouses, built in 1829, 1854, and 1894. The last courthouse was burned by arson in 1904. After the county . . . — — Map (db m110966) HM
Constructed in 1907 after the county seat moved from Williamsburg, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Covington County was formed by an act of the State Legislature on January 5, 1819, and signed into . . . — — Map (db m149333) HM
Front
In honor of Covington County Veterans of the Vietnam War
Rear
In Memory of
James Russell Pope
Private First Class
2nd Bn. 16th Infantry, 1st Inf. Div. USARV
Collins, MS
Jan. 28, 1947 - July 27, . . . — — Map (db m111173) WM
Dedicated to the
men and women of the Armed Forces
who served their country in all wars
and to those who gave their lives
in defense of freedom — — Map (db m111175) WM
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Billy Ray Reynolds
of Mount Olive arrived in Nashville in the 1970s, just
as the "outlaw" movement in country music was
beginning. He made his mark as bandleader for
Waylon Jennings and later by playing with . . . — — Map (db m312324) HM
World War II 1941-45McGrew Aultman • Trinjton Ruffin Aultman • Earnest Arthur Clark • Kenneth Graham Davis • J. P. Dunn • Ulmer Fairchild • Van Barkley Hemeter • A. J. Kelly • Lawrence Alllen Lott • Charles Ross Pickering • Ira Bruce Redmon . . . — — Map (db m276599) WM
East ¼ mile. Founded in 1846 as a coeducational boarding school by A.R. Graves, NY Presbyterian clergyman. Gave pre-law, pre-medical and fine arts training. Destroyed in the Civil War. — — Map (db m170485) HM
