Natchez, Mississippi now has more than 500 buildings that are on the National Register of Historic Places.
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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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Of Mississippi's 82 counties, Yazoo County is the largest and Alcorn County is the smallest.