A graduate of Winona High School and the United States Naval Academy Class of 1909, Ensign Billingsley was one of the "Bird Men" — the pioneers of naval aviation, the pioneers of the test pilot generation, and the grandfathers of the . . . — — Map (db m89917) HM
Established in 1873 as a mission of All Saints Parish of Grenada, Mississippi. The first sanctuary was built in 1875 and the church was formally organized the following year with Reverend V.N. Shields serving as rector. In 1909 this Gothic Revival . . . — — Map (db m219770) HM
Created by Congress in 1913, the highway in Mississippi follows U.S. 51, 49, & 90. Its central route runs from Fairview, Ky., Davis' birthplace, to Beauvior, his last home at Biloxi. — — Map (db m89904) HM
[East (front) side]
To the
Confederacy
President
Jefferson Davis
And
the Soldiers
who fought
for States Rights
CSA
[South side] To the women of the Confederacy, who were as fair as our skies and sunny . . . — — Map (db m92672) WM
Front
Roebuck “Pops” Staples, one of the foremost figures in American gospel music as a singer, guitarist, and patriarch of the Staple Singers family group, was born on a farm near Winona on December 28, 1914. Staples began playing . . . — — Map (db m90019) HM
On Jan. 31, 1860 The Final Spike Of The Old Mississippi Central Was Driven Just South Of Winona Establishing For The First Time Direct Rail Service From The Great Lakes To the Gulf Of Mexico. — — Map (db m89906) HM
On June 9, 1963, police arrested civil rights
activist Fannie Lou Hamer and several colleagues
while they attempted to integrate a nearby
segregated bus terminal. The group was traveling
home to Mississippi after attending nonviolent
protest . . . — — Map (db m219771) HM
