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 Welcome to Mississippi

MISSISSIPPI

Capital City: Jackson 
Nickname: Magnolia State
Population, 2005 estimate 2,921,088 residents

State?s Flag: The committee to design a State Flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. The committee recommended for the flag "one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.

First explored for Spain by Hernando de Soto, who discovered the Mississippi River in 1540, the region was later claimed by France. In 1699, a French group under Sieur d'Iberville established the first permanent settlement near present-day Ocean Springs. Great Britain took over the area in 1763 after the French and Indian Wars, ceding it to the U.S. in 1783 after the Revolution. Spain did not relinquish its claims until 1798, and in 1810 the U.S. annexed West Florida from Spain, including what is now southern Mississippi.

Today, agriculture continues as a major segment of the state's economy. For almost four decades soybeans occupied the most acreage, while cotton remained the largest cash crop. In 2001, however, more acres of cotton were planted than soybeans, and Mississippi jumped to second in the nation in cotton production (exceeded only by Texas). The state's farmlands also yield important harvests of corn, peanuts, pecans, rice, sugar cane, and sweet potatoes as well as poultry, eggs, meat animals, dairy products, feed crops, and horticultural crops. Mississippi remains the world's leading producer of pond-raised catfish.

The state abounds in historical landmarks and is the home of the Vicksburg National Military Park. Other National Park Service areas are Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, Tupelo National Battlefield, and part of Natchez Trace National Parkway. Pre?Civil War mansions are the special pride of Natchez, Oxford, Columbus, Vicksburg, and Jackson.

Fun Facts:

• Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935.
• The first nuclear submarine built in the south was produced in Mississippi.
• The world's largest cottonwood tree plantation is in Issaquena County.
• Pine Sol was invented in 1929 by Jackson native Harry A. Cole, Sr.
• Root beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr.
• The world's largest pecan nursery is in Lumberton.

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