Lee is a county in Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 82,910. The county seat is Tupelo. Lee County is included in the Tupelo Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Itawamba Community College, formerly known as Itawamba Junior College, is a community college in the northeast of the US state of Mississippi It has three campuses, in Fulton, Belden, and Tupelo, Mississippi.
Itawamba may refer to one of the following:
Levi Colbert (1759–1834), also known as Itawamba in Chickasaw, was a leader and chief of the Chickasaw nation. Colbert was called Itte-wamba Mingo, meaning bench chief. He and his brother George Colbert were prominent interpreters and negotiators with United States negotiators appointed by President Andrew Jackson's administration to gain cession of their lands and arrange for removal to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. They were under considerable pressure from the Mississippi state government, white interlopers in their area, and the federal government.
Mississippi's 1st congressional district is in the northeast corner of the state. It includes much of the northern portion of the state including Columbus, Oxford, Southaven, and Tupelo. One of the state's major universities, the University of Mississippi, is located within the district at Oxford.
The Itawamba County School District is a public school district based in Fulton, Mississippi, United States. The district's boundaries parallel that of Itawamba County.
The Yocona Area Council of Boy Scouts of America serves 12 counties in northeast Mississippi including Alcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Prentiss, Pontotoc, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, and Yalobusha. The council headquarters is in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Yocona Area Council, supported by 1,100 volunteers, and 130 chartered partners, serves approximately 6,500 youth annually in one of five programs: Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Venturing, Learning for Life, and Exploring.
Oakland Normal Institute was a private school in Yale, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Yale is a ghost town in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States.
Kirkville is an unincorporated community in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States.
Van Buren is a ghost town located in Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Wheeling is a ghost town located in Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Beans Ferry is an unincorporated community in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States. It is located on Mississippi Highway 25, 4.5 mi (7.2 km) south of Fulton. The Mississippian Railway passes through Beans Ferry.
Clay is an unincorporated community in Itawamba County, Mississippi, United States.
The 1980 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 4, 1980. All fifty states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1980 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 1st Mississippi Infantry was a line infantry regiment of the Confederate States Army originally formed as a state militia unit in Mississippi. The regiment was first organized at Corinth, Mississippi in April 1861 with a strength of 682 men. By the following spring, the regiment had been augmented to the Confederate Army and fought primarily in the western theater of the war. The majority of the regiment was recruited from Itawamba County in Mississippi.
Randy Phillip Boyd is a Republican politician who has served since 2012 as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 19th District in Mantachie in northeastern Mississippi.
Bounds Crossroads is a small unincorporated community in Itawamba County, Mississippi between Tremont, Mississippi and Red Bay, Alabama on Mississippi Highway 23. Part of Tomorrow was filmed in the community at a farm where Tammy Wynette lived with her grandparents. She grew up in the area and attended Hopewell School in Bounds Crossroads where she played basketball and sang. Mississippi Highway 23 intersects Mt. Gilead Road and Hartsell Road in Bounds Crossroads. The area's zip code is 35582. It is 427 feet above sea level. Briar Creek runs through the hilly area of eastern Itawamba County. A small graveyard is in the area. The nearby Red Bay Museum in Red Bay, Alabama has a collection related to Wynette.
