John Wesley Fairley
1840-1918 Born a slave, John Wesley "Wes” Fairley served with the 74th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. While guarding Confederate prisoners on Ship Island, Fairley recognized Lorenzo...
- mississippi
- civil war
Flint Creek Post Office
The Flint Creek Post Office was established in the early 1840s and was the only post office in the Piney Woods between Augusta and the Gulf Coast before the Civil War. First located on Flint...
- mississippi
- post office
Site of Bank of Mississippi
Chartered in 1809 as the only bank in Mississippi Territory and given a monopoly as the official state bank in 1818. It occupied this site in 1826 but was supplanted by Planters' Bank in...
- mississippi
- bank
"The Harvey Battle"
In 1848, James Harvey killed two members of the Copeland Gang in a dispute over the deed to his property on Red Creek. Seeking revenge, James Copeland and three of his men waited in ambush inside...
- mississippi
- land battle
- fued
Original King's Daughters Hospital
Dr. John H. Johnson and Dr. Dudley W. Jones opened the area's first hospital in a two-story residence at this site in 1909. In 1913, the Willing Hearts Circle purchased the equipment, rented...
- mississippi
- hospital
- lincoln county
- brookhaven
Trackways
- ireland
- peatland park
- nature
Morris Manor
MORRIS MANOR This Building is dedicated to Beverly & Charles R. Morris as gratitude for their tireless support for CAMBA and affordable housing in Brooklyn October 2, 2008Submitted by @lampbane
- new york
- brooklyn
- flatbush
- affordable housing
- camba
Charles Marega
CHARLES MAREGA (1871-1939) This Italian-Canadian sculptor created a number of outstanding monuments in the three decades after his arrival in British Columbia in 1909. Working first in the...
- vancouver
- italian
- sculptor
- charles marega
Bud Scott
Clarence “Bud” Scott, Sr., led one of the most popular dance bands in the Mississippi-Louisiana region for several decades beginning around 1900. Scott (1876-1938), a lifelong Natchez...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
"The Natchez Burning"
(side 2)"The Natchez Burning" Few events in African-American history have been as memorialized as the Natchez fire of 1940. In addition to a monument, markers, museum exhibits, and annual local...
- mississippi
- blues
- music
- disaster
761st Tank Battalion
From 1940-1944, Louisiana hosted a series of military maneuvers designed to train soldiers for all aspects of Army Ground Forces operations. Approximately 75,000 black soldiers maneuvered...
- louisiana
- wwii
- african americans
Bennett Plantation Home
In memory of Henry Seth Bennett, born 1842, died 1924 and Sarah Baggett Cotton, born 1848 died 1922. Henry was a veteran of the Civil War was shot through the right lung in the Battle...
- louisiana
- plantation site
- geneology
Sylvester Magee
May 28, 1841 - October 15, 1971 Believed to have been the last surviving American Slave, Magee was born in Carpet, North Carolina and sold at Enterprise, Mississippi at the age of nineteen....
- mississippi
- slave
- african american
- civil war
- centurion
Fort Rosalie Revisited
In 1940, Natchez native Jefferson Davis Dickson built a "reconstruction" of Fort Rosalie as a tourism attraction to appeal to the city's early automobile-driving visitors. A World War I flying ace...
- mississippi
- natchez
- colonial era
- park
- national par...
The Freedom Fountain
Dedicated to all the men and women who paid the ulitmate price in service to their country. This nation was conceived in liberty and built upon these sacrifices over the centuries. If this country...
- louisiana
- veterans
- park
Jimmy Lee Swaggart
Jimmy Lee Swaggart, born in Ferriday,Louisiana, on March 15, 1935, describeshimself as an old- fashioned, Holy Ghost-filled, shouting, weeping, soul-winning,gospel-preaching preacher....
- louisiana
- ferriday
- jimmy swaggart
- religion
Mickey Gilley
Mickey Leroy Gilley, born March 9,1936, grew up in Ferriday, Louisiana, andis a well-known country music performerand songwriter. He learned to play thepiano alongside his famous cousins,...
- louisiana
- music
- ferriday
- country & western
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis, born September 29, 1935,in Ferriday, Louisiana, with a God-given talent,at an early age became a world-famous rock-and-roll star. At age 8 he sang for the first timeto an audience...
- louisiana
- ferriday
- music
- rock & roll
Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker
1906 - 1993Leon "Peewee" Whittaker was bornabout 35 miles north of Ferriday,near Newellton, Louisiana. Hestudied music as a child and receivedinstruction on clarinet, trombone,guitar, string bass,...
- louisiana
- ferriday
- music
- blues
Howard K. Smith
Howard Kingsbury Smith, a broadcasterand journalist, was born in Ferriday,Louisiana, May 12, 1914. His father, alsonamed Howard K. Smith, was of a gentleman-farmer's family from Lettsworth,...
- louisiana
- ferriday
- journalist