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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 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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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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