Category: Central Mississippi
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The Room
If you traveled one block west of what is known as Five Points in Jackson, Mississippi, you would have seen a building that once served as an industrial uniform operation with “swinging doors that never closed.” When the facility was in operation, approximately 126 women worked around the clock on any given day. The operation…
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The Two Mississippi Museums
“The Two Mississippi Museums preserve the painful stories and truths of our ancestors and are a testament to the deep resolve we have to heal our communities.” The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum opened in 2017. They are identified as the Two Mississippi Museums. The two buildings are joined and…
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Jimmie Rodgers Museum
On May 26, 1953, the first Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival honored the 20th anniversary of the death of Jimmie Rodgers. In 1976, the Jimmie Rodgers Museum opened in Meridian’s historic Highland Park near the only two-row Dentzel Carousel in the world that whirls within the world’s only surviving Dentzel Carousel House. Today, an exquisite landmark…