Stanton, Mississippi | |
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  Stanton, Mississippi  Stanton, Mississippi | |
| Coordinates: 31°36′58″N91°14′25″W / 31.61611°N 91.24028°W Coordinates: 31°36′58″N91°14′25″W / 31.61611°N 91.24028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Adams |
| Elevation | 308 ft (94 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 694882 [1] |
Stanton is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Mississippi. It is the nearest community to Emerald Mound Site, a National Historic Landmark.
Stanton is located on a branch of the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. [2] A post office operated under the name Stanton from 1884 to 1955. [3]
Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,297. The county seat is Natchez.
Morgantown is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Quincy, known as Illinois's "Gem City", is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Illinois, United States, located on the Mississippi River. The 2010 census counted a population of 40,633 in the city itself, up from 40,366 in 2000. As of July 1, 2015, the Quincy Micro Area had an estimated population of 77,220.
Natchez is the county seat and only city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 15,792. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
Stanton may refer to:
Gerard Chittocque Brandon was an American political leader who twice served as Governor of Mississippi during its early years of statehood. He was the first native-born governor of Mississippi.
The Natchez Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan area that consists of Adams County, Mississippi and Concordia Parish, Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, the μSA had a population of 54,587.
Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. Built in part by enslaved people, the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark. Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the United States.
Copiah–Lincoln Community College (Co–Lin) is a public community college with its main campus in Wesson, Mississippi. The Co–Lin District serves a seven-county area including Adams, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln and Simpson counties. The college provides academic college-level courses for the first two years of four-year degree programs as well as career and technical programs.
McAdams is an unincorporated community in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. McAdams is located on Mississippi Highway 12 and is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sallis and approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Kosciusko.
The Emerald Mound Site, also known as the Selsertown site, is a Plaquemine culture Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. It is the type site for the Emerald Phase of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology and was still in use by the later historic Natchez people for their main ceremonial center. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois.
Fort Adams is a small, river port community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Natchez. It is notable for having been the U.S. port of entry on the Mississippi River, before the acquisition of New Orleans; it was the site of an early fort by that name.
Meyer is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of approximately 10 full-time residents as of mid-2009, due to the flood of 2008. The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the westernmost community in Illinois.
Julian may refer to:
Antebellum architecture is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. Antebellum architecture is especially characterized by Georgian, Neo-classical, and Greek Revival style homes and mansions. These elegant mansions were built in the southern American states during roughly the thirty years before the American Civil War; approximately between the 1830s to 1860s.
Zedekiah Silloway Stanton was an attorney and judge who served as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1902 to 1904.
Selsertown is an extinct town in Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
Kingston is an unincorporated community in Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
Munger is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois, United States. The location is adjacent to the Pike-Adams county line on the Mississippi floodplain two miles east of the Mississippi River and northeast of East Hannibal. Fall Creek is approximately 1.5 miles to the northeast. The Burlington Northern Railroad line passes by the community.
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