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| Mississippi Facts |
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Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi has been called Where Flowers Healed a Nation. It was April 25, 1866, and the Civil War had been over for a year when the ladies of Columbus decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with |
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The world's largest cactus plantation is in Edwards, Mississippi. |
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The oldest game in America is stickball. The Choctaw Indians of Mississippi played the game. Demonstrations can be seen every July at the Choctaw Indian Fair in Philadelphia. |
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