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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «chickasaw county» AND «mississippi»

This list will also include matches for inflectional* forms of the words.
 
By Craig Swain, June 28, 2008
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1 ► Pennsylvania, Adams County, Gettysburg, Cumberland Township — 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment —
On West Confederate Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
(Front):Davis' Brigade - Heth's Division A.P. Hill's Corps Army of Northern Virginia Confederate States of America Afternoon July 2 - July 4, 1863 (Back):The 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, under the command of Col. Francis M. . . . — — Map (db m11596) HM WM

2 ► Mississippi, Montgomery County, Kilmichael — 159 — Kilmichael: B.B. King's Roots — Mississippi Blues Trail —
On South Depot Avenue at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on South Depot Avenue.
Riley B. King, who was born in the Delta fifty miles west of here in 1925, spent many of his formative years in Kilmichael in the 1930s and ‘40s before achieving stardom as “B. B.” King. His first mentor on the guitar was the Reverend Archie . . . — — Map (db m90016) HM

3 ► Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, Music Row — 29 — Mississippi to Nashville — Mississippi Country Music Trail —
On Edgehill Avenue just west of 16th Avenue South, on the right when traveling west.
Nashville country music stardom attracted many performers, songwriters and producers from nearby Mississippi, from Jimmie Rodgers to Tammy Wynette, Charley Pride, Moe Bandy and Faith Hill. Mississippians Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty, Bobbie . . . — — Map (db m160771) HM

4 ► Mississippi, Chickasaw County, Sparta — 10 — Sparta Opry — Mississippi Country Music Trail —
On County Highway 419 0.7 miles east of County Highway 80, on the left when traveling east.
(Side 1) Formed in 1987 when three local musicians — Joe Lee Huffman, Willie Gene Huffman, and Robert Eaton — got together to play music and share supper, the Sparta Opry has become a community institution. Having offered more than 100 country, . . . — — Map (db m155271) HM

5 ► Mississippi, Chickasaw County, Houston — Natchez Trace Through Chickasaw County —
On N. Jackson Street at E. Madison Street, on the right when traveling north on N. Jackson Street.
This monument marks the Natchez Trace through Chickasaw County. By the Treaty of Pontotoc in 1832, the Chickasaw Indians ceded to the United States their lands east of the Mississippi. In 1801-1802 the old Indian trail was converted into a wagon . . . — — Map (db m97567) HM

6 ► Mississippi, Leflore County, Greenwood — 24 — Bobbie Gentry — Mississippi Country Music Trail —
On Grand Boulevard (County Road 518) 0.1 miles north of Rosemary Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Front Born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw County (1944) and spending her childhood here, Bobbie Gentry brought the accents, sounds and images of Delta life into scores of haunting songs she wrote and records she made, to become one . . . — — Map (db m77177) HM

7 ► Virginia, Powhatan County, Powhatan — Mohemenco (A Monacan Village) and Drake House —
On Bell Road (Virginia Route 684) 0.5 miles north of Powhatan Lakes Road ( Route 625), on the right when traveling north.
Col Samuel Drake (1787-1863), justice of the peace, coroner, inn owner, militiaman, son of James Drake (1740-96, Revolutionary soldier, Methodist minister & blacksmith of Little Deep Creek), owned 1048 acres, inc Caxamalca Plantation and 18 slaves. . . . — — Map (db m53565) HM
 
    Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
 
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