Monday, July 7, 2008

Mississippi Fun Facts

If you know me well-
You know I love Miss. as much as I love La.
These fun Miss. State facts were sent to me
by my friend Tina; who is born & raised in Miss.
Thanks Sweetie


FAMOUS FUN FACTS OF MISSISSIPPI

The Mississippi Gulf Coast, from Biloxi to Henderson Point,
is the largest and longest man-made beach in the world.

The World's ONLY cactus plantation is located in Edwards with
more than 3000 varieties of cacti.

Mississippi has more tree farms than any other state.

Mississippi has more churches per capita than any other state.

Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood is the largest
Bible rebinding plant in the nation.

H. A. Cole in Jackson, MS, developed the cleaning product Pine-Sol.

Pine-sol is manufactured ONLY in Pearl, Mississippi

Dr. Tichenor developed and created "Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic in
Liberty, MS (not in South Louisiana as commonly believed).

ONLY four cities in the entire world have been sanctioned by the
international Theater/Dance Committee to host the International Ballet
Competition: Moscow, Russia; Varna, Bulgaria; Helsinki, Finland;
and Jackson,Mississippi.

David Harrison of Columbus, Mississippi owns the patent on the
"Soft Toilet Seat." Over one million are sold every year.

The very first football player to be on a WHEATIES cereal box was none
other than Walter Peyton of Columbia, Mississippi.

The "Teddy Bear's name originated after a bear hunt in Onward
Mississippi with President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt
refused to shoot a staked out cub bear. The hunt was organized by Holt
Collier, a slave bear hunter from the area. News of this spread across
the country, and a New York merchant capitalized on this publicity by
creating a stuffed bear called "Teddy's Bear."

H. T. Merrill of IUKA, Mississippi, flew the very first round-trip
transoceanic flight in 1928. The flight to England was made in a plane
loaded with ping-pong balls.

The birthplace of Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi includes: a
museum,
a chapel, and the two-room house in which Elvis was born.

The world's first and oldest "Holiday Inn" is located in Clarksdale,
Mississippi.

Blazpn-Flexible Flyer, Inc., in West Point, Mississippi, manufactures
the best snow sled in the country, the Flexible Flyer.

GREENWOOD, Mississippi, is the home of Cotton Row, which is the
second largest cotton exchange in the nation and is on the National
Register of Historic Places.

Emil and Kelly Mitchell, The KING and QUEEN of GYPSIES, are buried in
Rose Hill Cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi. Since 1915, people from
all over the world have left gifts of fruit and juice at their
gravesites.

THE 4-H CLUB began in Holmes County, Mississippi in 1907.

The Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is the
largest research, testing, and development facility of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.

On April 25, 1866, women in Columbus decorated the graves of
Confederate and Union soldiers in Friendship Cemetery.
This gesture became known as Decoration Day, the beginning of what we observe as Memorial Day.

Shoes, in
America, were first sold in "PAIRS" in 1884 at Phil
Gilbert's Shoe parlor in
Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Inventor James D. Byrd of
Clinton, Mississippi holds seven patents and
developed the plastic used as a heat shield by NASA.

Mississippi's University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, was the
first state college for women in the country, established in 1884.

Every commercial airliner has at least one hydralic component that is
manufactured in
Jackson, Mississippi.

The
McCoy Federal Building in Jackson, Mississippi, is the first
federl building in the
United States to be named for a Black man. Dr.
A. H. McCoy was a dentist and business leader.

Hat maker, John B. Stetson learned and practiced the art of hat making
in Dunn's Falls, Nississippi.

The oldest field game in
America is STICKBALL, played by the Choctaw
Indians of
Mississippi. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the
Choctaw Indian Fair in
Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Alcorn State University, in Lorman, Mississippi, is the oldest black
land grant college in the world.

The Internation Checkers Hall-of-Fame is in
Pelahatchie, Mississippi.

Natchez, Mississippi was settled by the French in 1716 and is the
oldest permanent settlement on the
Mississippi River.

Natchez once had 500 millionaires, more than any other city except New
York City.

Natchez now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National
Register of Historic Places.

Captain Isaac Ross of
Lormon, Mississippi freed ALL of his slaves in
1834 and arranged for their passage to the West Coast of Africa
There is where theyfounded the country of
Liberia.

Oliver Pollock was the largest individual financial contributor to the
American rebelution. He invented the Dollar Sign ($). He is buried near
Pickneyville, Mississippi.

Resin Bowie, the inventor of the famous Bowie Knife, is buried in Port
Gibson, Mississippi.

Liberty, Mississippi, was the first town in the country to erect a
Confederate monument, in 1871.

The Pass Christian Yacht Club is the second oldest yacht club in
North America, founded in 1849.

The Mississsippi Legislature passed one of the first laws in 1839 to
protect the property rights of married women!! .

The
Natchez Trace Parkway, named an "All American Road" by the federal
government, extends from
Natchez, Mississippi to just south of
Nashville, Tennessee. The Trace began as an Indian trail more than
8,000 years ago.

The Mississippi Delta, (
Greenville), is the birthplace of the blues,
which preceeded the birth of jazz, the only other original American art
form.

The
Vicksburg National Cemetery is the second-largest national
cemetery in the country. Arlington NationalCemetary is the largest.

D'lo,
Mississippi was featured in LIFE magazine for sending
proportionally more men to serve in WWII, than ANY OTHER town of its
size; 38% of the men who lived in or about D'lo,
Mississippi.

In 1894, Coca-cola was first bottled by Joseph A. Biedenharn in
Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Mississippi was the first state to outlaw imprisonment of debtors.

Belzoni, Mississippi,...IS...the "Catfish Capital of The World".
Approximately 70% of the nation's farm-raised catfish comes
from
Mississippi.

Fred Montalvo owns the company that makes "ICEE" drinks from Edwards,
Mississippi.

Peavy Electronics, in
Meridian, is the world's largest manufacturer of
musical amplification equipment.

Proportionally more Mississippians were killed during the Civil War
than from ANY OTHER Confederate state!!

Serving during reconstruction, Hirian Revels was Mississippi's first
BLACK
U. S. Senator.

The FIRST (PTA) Parent-Teachers Association was formed and founded in
Crystal Springs, Mississippi.

Babe Ruth's famous last home run was hit off a Mississippian, Guy Bush
of
Tupelo, Mississippi

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