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- ↑ "Asset detail: Summer Trees". National Park Service: Focus. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
- 1 2 "Summer Trees". National Park Service. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
- ↑ Federal Writers Project (1938). Mississippi: A Guide To The Magnolia State. Somerset Publishers. p. 440. ISBN 9780403026258.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Summer Trees" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History . Retrieved September 4, 2015.
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