Monday, March 30, 2009

Old Factor's Stand on the Old Natchez Road

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The old Chickasaw Cession survey maps in the Itawamba County courthouse show the Natchez Trace route as it appeared when the surveyors mappe...
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Expand Your Research

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Over the weekend I was catching up on my blog reading and came across an interesting post at the California Genealogical Society Library blo...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

A Party Invitation: 1922

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A basketball party invitation from the Itawamba Agricultural High School from 1922. The printed invitation reads: "The boys and girls o...
Friday, March 27, 2009

The Woods and Gardens are Now Shades of Purple, White and Pink

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Wisteria is now blooming throughout the countryside of Itawamba County with shades of purple, blue, pink and white. Much of the woodlands an...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

An Old 19th Century Road Crossing the Mantachie Creek Bottomlands

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This past weekend while visiting the old Files graveyard I photographed the old road pictured above. During antebellum times this road conne...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

An Itawamba County Cowboy ca. 1932

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Woodrow Wilson Franks (born March 30, 1913, the son of Thomas Walker Franks and Sarah Jane Sheffield) is photographed at the North Mississip...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Dogwoods Blooming at the Courthouse

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The Itawamba County Courthouse Dogwood trees are blooming. When I got to the courthouse this morning I couldn't resist photographing one...
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