In 1871 Liberty, Mississippi became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument.
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The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan.
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H.T. Merrill from Luka, Mississippi performed the world's first round trip trans-oceanic flight in 1928.