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	<description>The Past Isn&#039;t Dead. It Isn&#039;t Even Past. -William Faulkner</description>
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		<title>Site Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for what seems to be a lack of activity. Although I haven&#8217;t been posting on the blog, I have been updating the Forgotten Mississippi Atlas. There are many places that I have some information on but no pictures and no real research. So, instead of trying to make up a post I will mark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Ford Home, Sandy Hook, Marion County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ford Home, also know as Ford&#8217;s Fort1, was built in 1805 by Reverend John Ford. Ford moved to Mississippi from South Carolina in 1798 and settled in Marion County, in what would eventually be known as the Sandy Hook community, around 1805. Rev. Ford was a Methodist minister and took up farming upon setting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forgotten-mississippi.com/2010/10/13/john-ford-home-sandy-hook-marion-county-ms/</link>
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		<title>Jefferson College, Washington, Adams County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jefferson College, chartered in 1802 and opened in 1811, was the first institution of higher learning in Mississippi. It was also was the first to receive a charter for any purpose by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. It began as a preparatory school until 1817 when it became a full college. Jefferson Davis attended in 1818. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forgotten-mississippi.com/2010/10/11/jefferson-college-washington-adams-county-ms-2/</link>
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		<title>Rodney, Jefferson County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once a very important port on the Mississippi River, it is now considered a ghost town having been forsaken by both railroads and the river. It&#8217;s history can be traced to the early 18th Century when it was originally known as Petit Gulf, in contrast to Grand Gulf which is situated a little further upstream.1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forgotten-mississippi.com/2009/02/24/rodney-jefferson-county-ms/</link>
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		<title>Windsor Ruins, Claiborne County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ruins of the Windsor Plantation. Once considered one of the most stately mansions on the Mississippi River, if not the entire South. So majestic that it even inspired Walt Whitman to write about it.1 Built between 1859-1861 by Smith Coffee Daniell II, it was the main house of a 2600 acre plantation built on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerald Mound, Adams County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A ceremonial mound built and occupied by the ancestors of the Natchez tribe between 1250 and 1600 AD. It is the second largest ceremonial earthwork in the United States.1 The largest being the Monk&#8217;s Mound at Cahokia in Illinois.2   Post Footnotes:http://www.nps.gov/archeology/feature/emerald.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia#Monk.27s_Mound]]></description>
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		<title>Bruinsburg, Claiborne County, MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A boat landing on the Mississippi River that was the site of Grant&#8217;s amphibious landing in 1863 during the second Vicksburg Campaign of the US Civil War.  The landing, involving over 24,000 troops, was the largest amphibious operation in American military history until World War II.1 Settled in 1788 by Peter Bryan Bruin when the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forgotten-mississippi.com/2009/02/18/bruinsburg-claiborne-county-ms/</link>
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		<title>David Holmes (1769 &#8211; 1832)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Holmes was born at Mary Ann Furnace, near Hanover, York County, Pa. on March 10, 1769 and was raised near Winchester, VA.  Elected to the United States House of Representatives in Virginia, he served from 1797 until 1809 when he was appointed as the governor of the Mississippi Territory.  He served as the territorial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forgotten-mississippi.com/2009/02/14/david-holmes-1769-1832/</link>
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