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  Tallahatchie County, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tallahatchie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Tallahatchie is an Indian name meaning Rock River and the county is one of ten in Mississippi with two county seats, Charleston and Sumner.
Tallahatchie County is also known as the location of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallahatchie_County,_Mississippi   (881 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County (LST-1154)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
During the first part of 1964, Tallahatchie County was overhauled at an Italian shipyard, Societa Escercizio Bocini Napoletani, and then returned to operations in support of the 6th Fleet.
During September 1964, she participated in an advance base exercise in conjunction with NATO Operation "Fallex." In February 1965, the advance base ship was called upon to salvage a jet aircraft which had splashed in shallow waters off the coast of Libya.
Tallahatchie County operated out of Naples until 15 January 1970 when she was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/amphib/lst1154.htm   (473 words)

  
 A History of Tallahatchie county
State of Mississippi
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On November 21, 1958, twenty-nine women of Tallahatchie County came together in a common purpose to establish the fiftieth chapter of the Mississippi Society of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Tallahatchie, a Choctaw Indian name, meaning "Rock of Waters," was given by the Indians to the river that rises in Tippah County and flows 301 miles Southwest and joined by the Coldwater, the Yalobusha and the Greenwood rivers, forms the Yazoo.
In 1891 a post office was established at Sumner and in 1902 the county was divided, and a courthouse built at Sumner, housing the records of lands in Tallahatchie West of a line almost parallel with the Tallahatchie River.
www.geocities.com /adysin.geo/historytallahatchieco-1.html   (4116 words)

  
 Tallahatchie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Tallahatchie is also the name of a county in northwestern Mississippi.
Renamed Tallahatchie on 26 January and designated "tinclad gunboat no. 46," the sidewheeler was held at Cincinnati for a fortnight by ice in the Ohio River before she could be moved downstream to Cairo, Ill., to be fitted out and lightly armored.
She served with this force for the duration of hostilities, operating off the passes of the Mississippi and in Mississippi Sound and Lake Pontchartrain.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/gunboats/tallahat.htm   (524 words)

  
 References Tallahatchie County, USGenWeb Project
If you own (or have access to) any Tallahatchie County references (such as census, cemetery, marriage, newspaper abstracts, etc.) and would be willing to do lookups for other Tallahatchie County researchers, then please contact me. Where we do have volunteers lined up, please abide by these guidelines.
Please put TALLAHATCHIE COUNTY LOOKUP in the subject line of your request to insure the message is not overlooked or accidentally deleted.
Even though this book is primarily cemetery inscriptions, the authors go beyond the norm by including information on the towns in Tallahatchie County, folklore, and stories by past and present residents of the county, making this a most entertaining as well as informative history of the county.
www.rootsweb.com /~mstallah/refs.html   (468 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County Mississippi 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans
It is possible to locate a free person on the Tallahatchie County, Mississippi census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census.
Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi census can check this list to learn if their ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County.
African American descendants of persons who were enslaved in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi in 1860, if they have an idea of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~ajac/mstallahatchie.htm   (1339 words)

  
 “Tallahatchie County Acquits a Peckerwood”
Elsewhere in Tal­lahatchie County, of course, it tend­ed to become the usual matter of a white man and a fl man.
Tallahatchie County whose pop­ulation is more than two-thirds Negro, boasts little industry, outside of an occasional company allied with its agricultural interests.
Carl Strider, who owns one of Tallahatchie’s largest plantations on which there are seven Negro shacks each bearing one letter on top spell­ing out S-T.R-I-D.E-R, is not a peckerwood and certainly not a nig­ger-lover, and in Tallahatchie Coun­ty it is hard to question him.
www.soc.umn.edu /~samaha/cases/halberstam_peckerwood.html   (2985 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County, MSGenWeb Project, A USGenWeb Project Website
Mississippi are the county seats.Tillatoba was a county seat for a while, but in 1837 the Board of Police found it necessary to abandon Tillatoba and seek another location.
Lela Evans and I (Helen Staten Arnold) are volunteers and have adopted Tallahatchie County.
She and I have deep roots in Tallahatchie County.
www.rootsweb.com /~mstallah   (577 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Tallahatchie County (LST-1154/AVB-2)
Renamed Tallahatchie County in July 1955, she deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in 1958 and in 1959-60.
She was sent to the Mediterranean in mid-1962 to provide immediate support for the establishment of expeditionary air bases.
She was decommissioned in January 1970 and sold for scrapping in July of that year.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/avb2.htm   (806 words)

  
 Tallahatchie General Hospital Wins Rural Health Care Award - Mississippi Hospital Association
On December 3, 2002, Tallahatchie General Hospital earned a 2002 Rural Health Care Award for its work in converting to a Critical Access Hospital (CAH).
This greatly improves the financial condition of the hospital and allows it to improve its services and maintain its presence in the community.
Tallahatchie General Hospital is one of only nine hospitals in the state that have been officially designated as CAH hospitals.
www.mhanet.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=355   (208 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2)
Scorpion (SSN-589) came alongside USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2), which was anchored off Naples, Italy.
Additional views of Tallahatchie County with Scorpion can be seen in: USS Tallahatchie County with USS Scorpion, April 1968 -- Part II.
Alongside USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2) outside Claywall Harbor, Naples, Italy, in April 1968, shortly before she departed on her last voyage.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/avb2-d.htm   (603 words)

  
 Tallahatchie NWR | Southeast Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Acres: 4,083 acres in Grenada and Tallahatchie counties, Mississippi.
Refuge is unstaffed and managed by North Mississippi Refuges Complex in Grenada, MS.
Location: Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge is on Highway 8, nine miles west of Holcomb and lies along Tippo Bayou.
www.fws.gov /southeast/tallahatchie   (301 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Tallahatchie County is one of 82 counties in Mississippi.
This was a decrease of -4.35% from the 2000 census.
Tallahatchie County supported John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20022   (603 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County, MS News
Five people have been arrested in the murder of a teenager whose body was found in a wooded area of Tallahatchie County.
One Tallahatchie County gardener has developed a garden with old items that would make many people clean out their attics and garages in search of ornamental items to create unique displays.
The cases, by county or city: Tallahatchie County: A privately run jail in Charleston fired three officers for excessive use of force after the beating of an inmate Feb.
www.topix.net /county/tallahatchie-ms   (705 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Genealogical Records Information
Which includes Tallahatchie County, Mississippi County Records, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi History, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Facts, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Genealogical Addresses and websites related to Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Genealogy in general.
Tallahatchie County was founded on December 31, 1833 and ranks twenty-eighth in the area.
Both towns wanted to be county seat of Tallahatchie, and Tillatobia succeeded.
www.mymississippigenealogy.com /ms_county/tal.htm   (1240 words)

  
 DM: Second stage of Tallahatchie River project gets go ahead
A once thriving section of Little Tallahatchie River is now a 23-mile-long shiftless, partly dried-up body of water known as the old Little Tallahatchie riverbed.
It is virtually a liquid highway sending drainage water and the water of the Puskus and Cypress creeks on a swift journey toward the Sardis Reservoir.
Renee Turner, study manager of the little Tallahatchie re-river project and employee of the Corps of Engineers' Planning Division, said it was likely the corps had made a mistake in diverting the creeks into the channel back in 1930.
www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/98/9802/980226/980226N3project.HTML   (1221 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
As a result of these findings, Homer L. Wilkes, State Conservationist has determined that the preparation and review of an environmental impact statement are not needed for this project.
Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact The project concerns a watershed plan to provide supplemental flood protection and reduce threat to loss of life from sudden dam failure to the residents of the Hubbard and Murphree Creeks Watershed and others.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/June/Day-13/i14920.htm   (381 words)

  
 Tallahatchie Co. MSGenWeb Project Celebrates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Before I left I had asked a volunteer to look-up any JONES listed in the History of Tallahatchie Co. She told me there was a Jacob C. Jones.
Thanks for a wonderful job and a lot of hard work, Tallahatchie County is one of the best sites I have seen for helpful information.
RAINEY, LAUGHLIN, JONES, OAKES Thanks to you I have found many more of my relatives in Tallahatchie Co. MS.My father was from there and I have visited there to find family connections but the data that you have put on the WEB has helped me much more than I could do there.
members.aol.com /levans3352/celebrategb.html   (2867 words)

  
 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi houses, real estate, agriculture, wages, work, ancestries, and more
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Tallahatchie County is $344 a month.
Churches in Tallahatchie County include: Bible Way Church, Saint Luke Church, Saint John Church, Saint Elmon Church, Saint Andrew Church, Saint Andes Church, Blue Cane Church, Locopolis Church.
Tallahatchie County historical area-adjusted tornado activity is slightly below Mississippi state average.
www.city-data.com /county/Tallahatchie_County-MS.html   (517 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Tallahatchie County, Miss.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Capital Impact: Tallahatchie County -- officials, addresses, and political, economic, education data
Fedstats/Mapstats: Tallahatchie County -- data on agriculture, population, immigration, business, crime, environment
The site opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 10, 2005.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/MS/TL.html   (536 words)

  
 The Carroll County Accident on the Tallahatchie Bridge the Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
NOTE: Cari didn’t pick up on the fact that, according to Bobby Gentry, the Tallahatchie Bridge is in Carroll County.
However, since the Tallahatchie Bridge is in Mississippi, Bobby Gentry must be talking about that state – her state of birth, as it turns out.
Since 1965 I thought the song was about the historical character Henry VIII - I obviously didn't bother listening to the lyrics.
wesclark.com /am/carroll_county_accident.html   (2354 words)

  
 Tallahatchie River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.
This event is mentioned in another song, "Freedom Highway," by the Staple Singers, in the lines, "Found dead people in the forests, Tallahatchie River and lakes/Whole world is wondering, what's wrong with the United States?"
This Mississippi state location article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallahatchie_River   (111 words)

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