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Interesting Data About Mississippi

- Borden's Condensed Milk was first canned in Liberty.
- In 1902 while on a hunting expedition in Sharkey County, President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear. This act resulted in the creation of the world-famous teddy bear.
- The world's largest shrimp is on display at the Old Spanish Fort Museum in Pascagoula.
- The first bottle of Dr. Tichener's Antiseptic was produced in Liberty.
- The world's largest cactus plantation is in Edwards.
- Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, on January 8, 1935.
- H.T. Merrill from Luka performed the world's first round trip trans-oceanic flight in 1928.
- In 1884 the concept of selling shoes in boxes in pairs (right foot and left foot) occurred in Vicksburg at Phil Gilbert's Shoe Parlor on Washington Street.
- The first female rural mail carrier in the United States was Mrs. Mamie Thomas. She delivered mail by buggy to the area southeast of Vicksburg in 1914.



- Historic Jefferson College, circa 1802, was the first preparatory school established in the Mississippi Territory. Located in Washington the educational institution is also the site where tradition holds Aaron Burr was arraigned for treason in 1807, beneath what became known as Burr Oaks.
- William Grant Still of Woodville composed the Afro-American Symphony.
- Burnita Shelton Mathews of Hazelhurst was the first woman federal judge in the United States and served in Washington, the District of Columbia.
- Dr. Emmette F. Izard of Hazelhurst developed the first fibers of rayon. They became known as the first real synthetics.
- The first nuclear submarine built in the south was produced in Mississippi.
- In 1871 Liberty became the first town in the United States to erect a Confederate monument.
- Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
- Leontyne Price of Laurel performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
- Mississippi is the birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star.
- The rarest of North American cranes lives in Mississippi in the grassy savannas of Jackson County. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane stands about 44 inches tall and has an eight-foot wingspan.
- Guy Bush of Tupelo was one of the most valuable players with the Chicago Cubs. He was on the 1929 World Series team and Babe Ruth hit his last home run off a ball pitched by Bush.
- S.B. Sam Vick of Oakland played for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. He was the only man ever to pinch hit for the baseball great Babe Ruth.
- Blazon-Flexible Flyer, Inc. in West Point is proclaimed to make the very best snow sled in the United States, which became an American tradition. It is called The Flexible Flyer.
- Friendship Cemetery in Columbus has been called Where Flowers Healed a Nation. It was April 25, 1866, and the Civil War had been over for a year when the ladies of Columbus decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with beautiful bouquets and garlands of flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called Memorial Day each year, an annual observance of recognition of war dead.
- The largest Bible-binding plant in the nation is Norris Bookbinding Company in Greenwood.
- After the Civil War, famed hat maker John B. Stetson learned and practiced his trade at Dunn's Falls near Meridian.