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

By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, March 9, 2024

The Wire Road Marker

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1 ► Mississippi, Stone County, Perkinston — The Wire Road —

On Wire Road at Sunflower Road, on the left when traveling east on Wire Road.

To provide communication between Mobile and New Orleans, a telegraph line was completed in 1848. The telegraph was attached to posts and trees across the Piney Woods region of Jackson, Harrison, and Hancock Counties to Pearlington and then to New . . . — — Map (db m238540) HM

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2 ► Mississippi, Stone County, Wiggins — Stone County —

On North Azalea Drive (U.S. 49) 1.3 miles north of West Central Avenue (State Highway 26), on the left when traveling north.

Stone County was proposed by legislator Andrew Wiggins Bond and created from the north third of Harrison County during a May 8, 1916 vote. It is named for two~time Mississippi governor John Marshall Stone. The county seat, Wiggins, was established . . . — — Map (db m109217) HM

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3 ► Mississippi, Stone County, McHenry — George Austin McHenry House — Built 1895 —

On Old Highway 49 at McHenry Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Highway 49.

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m243141) HM

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