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| Mississippi Facts |
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In 1871 Liberty, Mississippi became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument. |
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Root beer was invented in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr. |
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In 1834 Captain Isaac Ross, whose plantation was in Lorman, Mississippi, freed his slaves and arranged for them to be sent to Africa, where they founded the country of Liberia. |
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