This week I am working in Greenville, MS but staying in Cleveland, MS. The reason I am working and staying in separate areas (about 30 miles apart) is because Greenville does not have a Hilton Family Hotel and I like my hotel points (I plan on taking a huge trip next year and don't want to pay for it). Both towns however are very small farming towns that do not have websites that offer much in way of fun facts about their town. Therefore, I will supplement this with some facts about Mississippi in general.
- They produce very attractive Miss USA contestants (see picture)
- Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, has been called "Where Flowers Healed A Nation"? On April 25, 1866 the ladies of Columbus, Mississippi decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with garlands and bouquets of beautiful flowers. As A direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called MEMORIAL DAY each year?
- The Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula, Mississippi has the honor of displaying the world's largest shrimp.
- Greenville, Mississippi, is called the "Towboat Capital of the World."
- Root Beer was invented in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr.
- The world's oldest Holiday Inn is located in Clarksdale.
- Mississippi has more churches per capita than any other state.
- Oh yeah...Greenville, MS does not have a Hampton Inn
- Greenville has many hole in the wall Mexican restaurants
Hopefully this increased your knowledge about Mississippi and when your friends say, "Man, there is nothing interesting about Mississippi" you can correct them.
--Source: Mississippi Local History Network
