Tupelo is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1860, the population was 37,923 at the 2020 census. It is the 7th most populous city in Mississippi and is considered a commercial, industrial, and cultural hub of northern Mississippi.
U.S. Route 45 is a major north-south United States highway and a border-to-border route, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. A sign at the highway's northern terminus notes the total distance as 1,297 miles (2,087 km).
The Tupelo T-Rex was a professional ice hockey team in the Western Professional Hockey League and played their home games at BancorpSouth Center from 1998 to 2001. The owners of the T-Rex also fielded a junior team in the America West Hockey League from 2001 to 2003 when they were unable to continue fielding a professional team.
Tupelo Regional Airport is a public use airport located 3.7 miles; 3.2 nautical miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Tupelo, a city in Lee County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the Tupelo Airport Authority. The airport is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the federal Essential Air Service (EAS) program. Many college football teams visiting the University of Mississippi, 49 miles west in Oxford, fly into Tupelo.
William Turner Catledge was an American journalist, best known for his work at The New York Times. He was managing editor from 1952 to 1964 when he became the paper's first executive editor.
WTVA is a television station licensed to Tupelo, Mississippi, United States, serving the Columbus–Tupelo market as a dual affiliate of NBC and ABC. The station is owned by Allen Media Broadcasting. WTVA's studios are located on Beech Springs Road in Saltillo, and its transmitter is located in Woodland, Mississippi.
WLOV-TV is a television station licensed to West Point, Mississippi, United States, serving as the CW+ affiliate for the Columbus–Tupelo market. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Morris Multimedia, owner of Columbus-licensed CBS/Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WCBI-TV, for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on 5th Street South in Downtown Columbus; WLOV-TV's transmitter is located in Woodland, Mississippi.
The Mississippi Business Journal is a statewide weekly business newspaper, located in Jackson, Mississippi.
WWKZ, is a top 40 (CHR) radio station licensed to Okolona, Mississippi, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC. WWKZ serves Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi with an ERP of 50,000 watts.
WWZD-FM is a country music formatted radio station based in New Albany, Mississippi, and serving Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi with an ERP of 28,000 watts. WWZD is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC.
WESE, known as "92.5 The Beat", is an urban contemporary radio station based in Guntown, Mississippi, United States, and serves Tupelo and Northeast Mississippi with an ERP of 12,000 watts. WESE is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC.
WTUP is a radio station broadcasting a black-oriented news format, with programming from the Black Information Network. Licensed to Tupelo, Mississippi, United States, the station serves the Tupelo area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC.
WRBO is a radio station licensed to Como, Mississippi, and serving the Memphis metropolitan area. Owned by Cumulus Media, WRBO has an urban adult contemporary format playing both current and classic R&B music. The station's studios are located at the Memphis Radio Group building in East Memphis, and the transmitter site is in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
The Daily Corinthian is a daily newspaper published in Corinth, Mississippi, United States, serving Corinth and the immediate region, with a reported circulation of 6,711 Tuesday-Saturday, 6,554 Sundays. The Daily Corinthian is one of two daily newspapers published in northeast Mississippi. The other is The Tupelo Daily Journal, located about 50 miles south of Corinth. They both compete for market share with The Clarion-Ledger out of Jackson, Mississippi, which considers itself a statewide paper, as well as with the West Tennessee daily papers. The Daily Corinthian was founded in 1899.
Mall at Barnes Crossing is a super regional shopping mall located in Tupelo, Mississippi, United States. It is managed and partially owned by David Hocker & Associates and is home to over 90 specialty shops, 5 anchor store tenants, an 8-screen Cinemark movie theater, and a 600-seat food court. The anchor stores are Barnes & Noble, Jos. A. Bank, JCPenney, Ulta Beauty, 2 Belk stores, Cinemark, and Dick's Sporting Goods. There is 1 vacant anchor store that was once Sears.
Hancock Fabrics was a specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics based in Baldwyn, Mississippi, United States. Hancock Fabrics operated as many as 266 stores in 37 states under the Hancock Fabrics name. Hancock Fabrics was established by the late Lawrence D. Hancock. On July 27, 2016, all stores were closed, marking the end of the chain.
Cadence Bank is a commercial bank with dual headquarters in Tupelo, Mississippi and Houston, Texas with operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Illinois. In 1876, Raymond Trice and Company received a charter to create a bank in its hardware store in Verona, Mississippi. In 1886, the banking operation was moved to Tupelo, Mississippi and the company was renamed to Bank of Lee County, Mississippi. Soon after, it was renamed to the Bank of Tupelo. The bank was renamed to Bank of Mississippi in 1966. In 1997, the bank changed its name to BancorpSouth. In October 2021, the bank changed its name to Cadence Bank. It has the naming rights to Cadence Bank Amphitheatre in Atlanta and Cadence Bank Arena in Tupelo.
The Pensacola Flyers were an American professional indoor soccer team based in Pensacola, Florida. They played their home games in the Pensacola Civic Center. They were members of the Eastern Indoor Soccer League and played only during the 1998 season. During the 1997 season, the team played at the Tupelo Coliseum in Tupelo, Mississippi, as the Tupelo Hound Dogs then relocated to Pensacola during the offseason.
Robert Bruce Smith IV was an American music and history expert, writer, and lecturer. His expertise was sought after and beloved throughout Mississippi.
The 1917 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1917 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Stanley L. Robinson, the Aggies compiled an overall record of 6–1, with a mark of 3–1 in conference play. Mississippi A&M played home games at the New Athletic Field in Starkville, Mississippi.
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