Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640...
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Pontotoc County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,184. Its county seat is Pontotoc. It...
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House on Pontotoc Creek in Pontotoc, Mississippi. The treaty ceded the 6,283,804 million acres of the remaining Chickasaw homeland in Mississippi in return...
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Pontotoc may refer to: Fulton, Kentucky, formerly known as Pontotoc Pontotoc, Mississippi Pontotoc, Texas Pontotoc County, Mississippi Pontotoc County...
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Lochinvar is an antebellum plantation house near Pontotoc, Mississippi built by Robert Gordon c. 1836. It is listed on the National Register of Historic...
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Lanny Flaherty (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
Bickford as Whammo. Flaherty was a graduate of Pontotoc High School, and attended University of Southern Mississippi after high school. He resided in New York...
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Sherman is a town which straddles Lee, Pontotoc, and Union counties in Mississippi. The population was 600 at the 2020 census. In 1840 Reuben Jones and...
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Mississippi (/ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi/ MISS-ə-SIH-pee) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the...
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Roger Wicker (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 1995 until 2007. Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Wicker is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and...
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Ecru is a town in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The population was 895 at the 2010 census. Ecru is home to the largest upholstered furniture plant in the...
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historic Chickasaw tribal area in Mississippi. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Pontotoc is usually translated "cattail prairie"...
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The Pontotoc City School District is a public school district based in Pontotoc, Mississippi (USA). It covers almost all of Pontotoc and some unincorporated...
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as "The Memphis Mafia".[citation needed] His parents came from Pontotoc, Mississippi, not far from Tupelo, Elvis Presley's hometown. West was one of...
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Max Palmer (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
until his death in 1984 from heart disease. Palmer was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi. In May 1975, Palmer married a woman, Betty, and they remained married...
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Melissa Cookston (category People from Greenville, Mississippi)
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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Cordell Jackson (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
label. She was born Cordell Miller in Pontotoc, Mississippi, where her father led a string band, the Pontotoc Ridge Runners. As a child she learned guitar...
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Algoma is a town in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The population was 705 at the 2020 census, up from 590 at the 2010 census. Algoma is a Native American[clarification...
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The Pontotoc County School District is a public school district based in Pontotoc County, Mississippi (USA). The district serves the towns of: Algoma...
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Delaney Bramlett (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
of whom were successful in other contexts. Bramlett was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He began playing guitar when he was 8 years old, but did not get...
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Jim Weatherly (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
"Midnight Train to Georgia". Weatherly was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, on March 17, 1943. He attended Pontotoc High School, where he was an all-star quarterback...
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Ruby Elzy (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
her 30s from surgery to remove a benign tumor. Elzy was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, and educated at Rust College, the Ohio State University (graduating...
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Thad Cochran (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
senator for Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A Republican, he previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978. Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi...
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for centuries before white settlers began arriving. Present-day Pontotoc, Mississippi developed near the Chickasaw "Long Town", which was composed of...
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Toccopola is a town in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 246 at the 2010 census. The town took its name from an old Indian...
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Delaney's grandfather, John Bramlett, in front of the log cabin in Pontotoc, Mississippi, where Delaney grew up. Stax released two singles from the album...
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Pontotoc County is the name of two counties in the United States: Pontotoc County, Mississippi Pontotoc County, Oklahoma This disambiguation page lists...
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approximately 139 miles (224 km), serving Coahoma, Quitman, Panola, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Lee, and Monroe Counties. West of Tupelo, it is concurrent with US 278...
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Trail, which ran northeastward to the former village at present-day Pontotoc, Mississippi. They later improved these trails for roadways wide enough for wagons...
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(16 km) south to Calhoun City, and northeast 31 miles (50 km) to Pontotoc. Mississippi Highway 32 crosses Highway 9 in the center of Bruce and leads east...
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William Clark Falkner (category People from Pontotoc, Mississippi)
Clark Falkner lived with his family in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Pontotoc, Mississippi, joining the Thompsons in Ripley in 1842. In 1847, he married Holland...
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