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    Ruleville is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta region. The population was 3,007 at the 2010 census. It...
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    Fannie Lou Hamer (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    County, Mississippi. She was the last of the 20 children of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend. In 1919, the Townsends moved to Ruleville, Mississippi, to work...
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    is 8 miles (13 km) south of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, and it is north of Ruleville. Cleveland, Mississippi is 12 miles (19 km) from Drew. Drew...
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  • Sr. High School, formerly Ruleville Central High School (RCHS), is a public high school located in Ruleville, Mississippi, United States. It is a part...
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    Melissa Cookston (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    champion. Cookston was born in Ruleville, Mississippi in 1968. She grew up in Greenville, Mississippi and Pontotoc, Mississippi. Melissa worked in food preparation...
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    Floyce Street and North Front Street in Ruleville, Mississippi. It was constructed in 1930 by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad following its purchase...
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    Jimmy Rogers (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    touring in the 1970s. Rogers was born Jay or James Arthur Lane in Ruleville, Mississippi, on June 3, 1924. He was raised in Atlanta and Memphis. He adopted...
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    Sunflower River (category Rivers of Mississippi)
    Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is navigable by barge for 50 miles. It rises in DeSoto County, Mississippi near the Tennessee border and...
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    postal address will retain Delmar Boulevard. Barack Obama Avenue – Ruleville, Mississippi President Barack Obama Avenue – Cincinnati, Ohio – Cincinnati City...
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    is operated by the city. Ruleville-Drew Airport, between Drew and Ruleville, is jointly operated by the two cities. Mississippi Delta Community College...
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    Morgan Freeman (category Comedians from Mississippi)
    crash when his 1997 Nissan Maxima was involved in a rollover near Ruleville, Mississippi. He and his passenger, Demaris Meyer, had to be cut free from the...
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    Charley Patton (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    000-acre (40 km2) Dockery Plantation, a cotton farm and sawmill near Ruleville, Mississippi. There, Patton developed his musical style, influenced by Henry...
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    District). Residents are zoned to school in Moorhead, Mississippi. As of 2012[update] it was zoned to Ruleville Central High School (now Thomas E. Edwards, Sr...
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    Ike Turner (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    Turner was first married at 16 years old to Edna Dean Stewart of Ruleville, Mississippi. They were married on April 10, 1948. Records show that Turner added...
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  • Emmett Till (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    Carolyn divorced; he remarried in 1980. Bryant opened a store in Ruleville, Mississippi. He was convicted in 1984 and 1988 of food stamp fraud. In a 1985...
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    high school students rezoned to Ruleville Central. In 1969, the State of Mississippi passed a law written by Ruleville-based state senator Robert L. Crook...
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    Christian) Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977), civil rights, voting rights activist (Ruleville) Winson Hudson (1916–2004), civil rights activist (Harmony) Clyde Kennard...
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  • Ruleville-Drew Airport (FAA LID: M37) is a public use airport in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. Jointly operated by the cities of Drew and...
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    Elementary students are zoned to Ruleville Central Elementary School As of 2012[update] it was zoned to Ruleville Central High School (now Thomas E....
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  • State highways in Mississippi are maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The state numbers its highways in a grid-like pattern, much...
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    Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2...
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    Horace Stansel (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    after his death. Horace Stansel was born in 1888 in Ruleville, Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta. He attended Franklin Academy in Columbus as...
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  • Lester Brinkley (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    end in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys for the 1990 NFL season. He played college football at the University of Mississippi. v t e...
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    Rosedale Ruleville Shaw Shelby Tippo Tunica Vicksburg Winterville Yazoo City The Mississippi Department of Corrections operates the Mississippi State Penitentiary...
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  • Water Valley – 3,380 Gluckstadt – 3,208 Ruleville – 2,642 United States portal Mississippi portal Mississippi's congressional districts List of United...
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    (37 km) to Greenwood and Highway 8 leading west 35 miles (56 km) to Ruleville. Mississippi Highway 35 passes through Holcomb as well, leading south 21 miles...
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    founded in 1967 by Delars Bracy, a criminal attorney originally from Ruleville, Mississippi, and his wife Bertie. They named the restaurant after their daughter...
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  • Yazoo Delta Railroad (category Defunct Mississippi railroads)
    Moorhead and Ruleville, Mississippi. It was extended to Tutwiler, Mississippi, and Lake Dawson and was acquired by the Yazoo and Mississippi Railroad by...
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    The railroad - or its predecessor, the Yazoo Delta Railway (Moorhead-Ruleville) - is featured in a number of blues songs by African-American artists...
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  • Robert Crook (category People from Ruleville, Mississippi)
    American politician from Mississippi. Robert Lacey Crook was born in Bolton, Mississippi and grew up in Ruleville, Mississippi. He served in the United...
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