• Electric Mills is an unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi. It lies along U.S. Route 45 east of the city of De Kalb, the county seat...
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    business at Mississippi Mills thrived because of his interest in the mill workers and community affairs. By the late 1880s, Mississippi Mills employed:...
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  • includes Arkansas' two largest steel mills, both of which are owned wholly or partially by Nucor Corporation. Mississippi County Electric Cooperative v t e...
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  • Mississippi, ghost town, former location of Bankston Textile Mill Electric Mills, Mississippi, started by Sumter Lumber Company Fernwood, Mississippi...
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    other of the oldest mills operated by General Mills. The Mills were mothballed for several years until the Washburn Crosby Mill was leased to the visionary...
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  • Hank Presswood (category People from Kemper County, Mississippi)
    batted and threw right handed. Born in Electric Mills, Mississippi, Presswood played sandlot ball before joining the Mill City Jitterbugs club in 1936 and 1937...
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  • Hardy Myers (category People from Kemper County, Mississippi)
    Criminal Justice Council. Myers was born October 25, 1939, in Electric Mills, Mississippi. He moved with his family to Bend in central Oregon in 1943 where...
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  • Betty Jane Long (category Businesspeople from Mississippi)
    a proposal for a new Constitution of Mississippi. Long was born on May 8, 1928, in Electric Mills, Mississippi, and moved to Meridian with her family...
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    feed mill, which processed cotton into oil and other products. In 1928, he moved to Mississippi to pick cotton. He finally settled in Como, Mississippi, around...
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  • Milburn Price (category University of Mississippi alumni)
    Milburn Price, born 9 April 1938 in Electric Mills, Mississippi, has served most recently as Dean of the School of Performing Arts at Samford University...
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    Saint Anthony Falls (category Mississippi Gorge)
    the Mississippi River. Throughout the mid-to-late 1800s, various dams were built atop the east and west faces of the falls to support the milling industry...
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    This list contains people who were born or lived in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an...
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    A Mississippi Blues Trail marker was added for King to commemorate his birthplace (2008) Time named King No. 3 on its list of the 10 best electric guitarists...
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    System, and is named for Wilbur D. Mills, a member of United States House of Representatives from Arkansas. Wilbur D. Mills Dam is 52.4 ft (16.0 m) high, and...
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    Porterville Cullum Electric Mills Moscow Preston Sucarnoochee Tamola Wahalak Binnsville Minden Eddie Briggs, 28th Lt. Governor of Mississippi Bud Brown, former...
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    Pillsbury A-Mill is a former flour mill located on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the world's largest flour mill for...
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  • types of steel mills. The first, traditional large integrated steel mills, process iron ore into pig iron and then into steel. These mills have been declining...
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    provided power for sawmills and flour mills. Fort Snelling was established in 1819, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, and soldiers...
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    industry, enabling the construction of larger cotton mills. Limited companies were developed to construct mills, and together with the business of the trading...
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  • St. Anthony Falls Hydroelectric Development (category Mississippi River)
    waterpower of the falls. First lumber mills covered the falls, cutting lumber floated down the Mississippi. After 1870 flour mills started to dominate the area...
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    city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast...
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  • the company began construction of a $100 million facility in Columbus, Mississippi. In 2017, the company began a $28 million expansion of its Roanoke Bar...
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  • Side Elevated Railroad Mississippi Valley Interurban Railway Moline, East Moline and Watertown Railway North Kankakee Electric Light and Railway Company...
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    cells imported from China and more than tripled tariffs on lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries imported from China. It also raised tariffs on imports...
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  • US Annandale (Gilmore Mills, Virginia), a historic house Annandale Plantation, a former plantation in Mannsdale, Mississippi Annandale, Shimla, a suburb...
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    (south) of River Mill. All but Faraday, demolished 2018, are still owned and operated by the successor company, Portland General Electric. The principal...
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    Southwest Power Pool (category Electric power transmission system operators in the United States)
    Light, Louisiana Power & Light, and Mississippi Power & Light (subsidiaries of Entergy), Southwestern Gas and Electric and Public Service Company of Oklahoma...
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    Blytheville, Arkansas (category Cities in Mississippi County, Arkansas)
    Blytheville is the county seat and the largest city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. It is approximately 60 miles (100 km) north of West...
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    Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains...
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    severe weather and tornado outbreak began across portions of the lower Mississippi River Valley in the United States. A slow-moving trough moved eastward...
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