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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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Historic Jefferson College, circa 1802, was the first preparatory school established in the Mississippi Territory. Located in Washington the educational institution is also the site where tradition holds Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason in 1807. |
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Belzoni, Mississippi is called the Catfish Capital of the World. |
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