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Official website for Harrison County: http://www.co.harrison.ms.us/

Find Gulfport school information here: www.gulfportschools.k12.ms.us/

City of Gulfport information: http://www.ci.gulfport.ms.us/

Fun facts about Mississippi:

• Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, has been called "Where Flowers Healed A Nation"? On April 25, 1866 the ladies of Columbus, Mississippi decided to decorate both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves with garlands and bouquets of beautiful flowers. As a direct result of this kind gesture, Americans celebrate what has come to be called MEMORIAL DAY each year
• The oldest book in America, an ancient Biblical manuscript, is located at the University of Mississippi
• The University of Southern Mississippi houses the world's largest collection of original manuscripts and illustrations of children's literature
• The official world's record for keeping a plane aloft is held by Al and Fred Key of Meridian. They refueled in the air and kept their plane aloft for 653 hours and 34 minutes (27 days, 5 hours, and 34 minutes) in 1935
• Root Beer was invented in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, Sr
• The world's oldest Holiday Inn is located in Clarksdale