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Owners selling Elvis’ ranch; want it to be tourist destination

Associated Press — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:09:47 +0000

HERNANDO — A group of Elvis Presley fans wants to preserve the memory of the king’s cowboy side by finding a buyer for a DeSoto County ranch to make it a destination for visitors. Elvis bought the roughly 150-acre Circle G ranch in 1967 as a place to ride horses and get away from Graceland. [...]

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Trace to celebrate its 75th ‘birthday’ this weekend

Associated Press — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:17:39 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Saturday marks the paradoxical 75th anniversary of one of Natchez’s oldest connections with civilization. The National Park Service will mark this weekend the day (May 18) in 1938 when the NPS assumed control of the historic Old Natchez Road — today known as the Natchez Trace Parkway — and began turning the [...]

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Despite sinking stage, Coast festival draws 25,000 fans

Associated Press — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:12:07 +0000

GULFPORT — Organizers of a weekend music festival in Gulfport say it drew 25,000 fans, despite high wind and rain. The Sun Herald reports the Gulfport Music Festival’s first day on Friday came within an hour of being cancelled due to bad weather. And it was almost shut down Saturday when workers discovered the main [...]

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Winterville Mounds backers want bigger, more modern museum

Associated Press — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:09:21 +0000

WINTERVILLE — Historians, tourism officials and others are pushing to get started on a multimillion-dollar facelift at Winterville Mounds State Park north of Greenville. They hope to expand the site and transform the museum into a contemporary and interactive history of Native American heritage in the Mississippi Delta. The Delta Democrat Times reports various organizations [...]

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Legislation aims to preserve Civil War battlefields

MBJ Staff — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:05:29 +0000

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) has introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the program that helps preserve historic battlegrounds in the United States, including battlefields in Mississippi. Cochran joined Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) to introduce the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act (S.916). The bill reauthorizes the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program (CWBPP) that [...]

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Mandatory meetings held for Delta heritage area

MBJ Staff — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:27:03 +0000

CLEVELAND — The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area moved closer to full authorization with two recent public meetings and a series of planning committee meetings, followed by a session with the governing board. Thirty people attended a community meeting in the Museum of the Mississippi Delta in Greenwood, and 25 attended another meeting in the [...]

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Beauvoir finally rid of Hurricane Katrina’s destruction

Associated Press — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:53:37 +0000

BILOXI — Visitors arriving today at Beauvoir, the last home of the president of the Confederacy, will be greeted inside the new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library. For nearly eight years, the first building guests at Beauvoir have seen coming through the gates is a FEMA trailer, a reminder of Hurricane Katrina. “We have been working [...]

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Old depot to begin new life as shopping destination this week

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:57:51 +0000

GULFPORT — The city of Gulfport is trying to turn what was once a busy train depot into a shopping destination. The historic old train depot in downtown Gulfport stopped operating in the early 1950s. Since then, it has served as a temporary site for a restaurant and a museum. The city spent about half [...]

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City looks to honor former Catfish Alley business owners

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:52:31 +0000

COLUMBUS — Columbus Mayor Robert Smith says the city hopes to place a monument to honor the black men and women who operated businesses on Fourth Street South between Main Street and College Street, commonly known as Catfish Alley. Smith tells The Commercial Dispatch plans are for a mid-April dedication. The city is spending $25,000 [...]

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Report: Visitors spent $93M along Natchez Trace

MBJ Staff — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:57:58 +0000

TUPELO — A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that 5.7 million recreational visitors to the Natchez Trace Parkway spent $93 million in the communities surrounding the Park. This spending supported over 1,200 jobs in the local area. The statistical information for the Parkway is part of a peer-reviewed spending analysis of [...]

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