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Rich, Mississippi is a small community in northern Coahoma county with a population of less than fifty souls. There isn’t a store or post office and really not much of…
Rich, Mississippi is a small community in northern Coahoma county with a population of less than fifty souls. There isn’t a store or post office and really not much of…
On May 28, 1889 the Memphis Daily Appeal published a story about the county seat of Coahoma County. This snapshot from history survives today but most people have never had…
My family came to Lula around 1940 and started a farm on Flea Harbor Road. The Mississippi Delta offered only a few pathways to having a better life in those…
There was an older man sitting on the front porch watching the place. You give him five dollars and he lets you explore. He has some great stories if you…
William Francis and his younger brother Andrew Sidney Dowd were two extra ordinary men who had to deal with the carnage of the Civil War and the aftermath of Reconstruction.…
“Not all history is positive. Not all history is negative. We cannot just focus on the history we like, but must focus on all history to truly learn about the past.”…
Maggie Elizabeth Busby was born on October 28, 1866 in Winchester, Tennessee. Winchester is a town in Franklin County on the Alabama state line. She was the daughter of…
Sometime after the Civil War, Captain Joseph Franklin Townsend and Colonel Hemingway bought a plantation overlooking the Yazoo Pass which they named “Bonita.” Using convict labor, the men cultivated Bonita…