The small town of Natchez, celebrated for its luxirious planter mansions in antebellum style built before the Civil War, preserves the peculiar atmosphere of prosperous Old South
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The state of Mississippi is heavily forested. Its name comes from the Mississippi River. Golf, tennis and boating are year round sports. Jackson is the state's capital and largest city |
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Biloxi is a port at the Gulf of Mexico and an important tourist center. The lighthouse, the National library and the network of well-known gambling houses are its main attractions |
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Small friendly town of Mccomb nestled in the southwest corner of Mississippi more than once was honoured with the title of "The Hospitality City of the Hospitality State" |
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Vicksburg is an important cultural center of the state, famous first of all for its National Military Park, containing a very great number of American Civil war monuments and memorials |
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In the small town of Olive Branch is located the largest Bonsai grower in America, Brussel's Bonsai Nursery, where they cultivate and sale all kinds of dwarf trees |
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In the Memorial Park Cemetry of Natches were reinterred remains of fallen Civil War soldiers, transferred here from battlefields and post cemeteries of the region |
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Mississippi Petrified Forest is listed as a National Natural Landmark. The site features a museum with large collection of plant fossils found in every state and from other countries |
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William Faulkner's house "Rowan-Oak" was purchased by Mississippi University in 1972 and everything there is carefully preserved as it was during the writer's lifetime |
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Each year more than 30 000 people visit the World Catfish Festival in the small town of Belzoni, bearing the title of Farm-Raised Catfish Capital of the World |
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