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    Lexington is a city in and the county seat of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. The county was organized in 1833 and the city in 1836. The population...
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  • Lexington, Michigan, a village within the township Lexington, Minnesota, a city Lexington, Mississippi, a city Lexington, Missouri, a city Lexington,...
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  • The Masonic Temple in Lexington, Mississippi, is a historic building that was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 2003. A three-story brick commercial...
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    which had spread throughout the waterways of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys: 500 of 7,000 Lexington residents died within two months, including nearly...
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  • Lexington Historic District in Lexington, Mississippi is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It included...
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  • Hattie Winston (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    in Lexington, Mississippi on March 3, 1945, the daughter of Roosevelt Winston and Selena (née Thurmond). She was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, where...
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  • Ronnie Lewis (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    second African-American to hold the position. Lewis was born in Lexington, Mississippi, on December 22, 1944 and earned a bachelor of science degree in...
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    Milton L. Olive III (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    Grove Cemetery at Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi. He was born in Chicago but left as a young boy living in Lexington, Mississippi, where he finished...
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  • Oglethorpe County, Georgia Lexington Historic District (Lexington, Mississippi), NRHP-listed Uptown Lexington Historic District, Lexington, North Carolina, listed...
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    Minnie M. Cox (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    Geddings was born in 1869 to Mary Geddings and William Geddings in Lexington, Mississippi. Though not much is known about her early life, it is possible that...
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    county is within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,000. Its county seat is Lexington. The county is named in honor...
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  • Saints Academy was a private 1-12 school in Lexington, Mississippi, the county seat of Holmes County. Founded by the Church of God in Christ in 1918 as...
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  • (FAA/IATA: LEX) C. A. Moore Airport in Lexington, Mississippi, United States (FAA: 19M) Davidson County Airport in Lexington, North Carolina, United States (FAA:...
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  • Hazel Brannon Smith (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    editor of four weekly newspapers in rural Mississippi, mostly in Holmes County. Her newspapers included the Lexington Advertiser, the second oldest newspaper...
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  • in 2022, JULIAN filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Lexington, Mississippi. JULIAN was founded by Jill Collen Jefferson as a civil rights organization...
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    Edmond Noel (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    returning to Mississippi in 1877. He passed the state bar and opened law practice in Lexington. In 1881, Noel was elected to a seat in the Mississippi House...
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  • Charles Harrison Mason (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    Hazelhurst, Mississippi. These men spread the doctrine of Holiness and Sanctification throughout the African-American Baptist churches in Mississippi, Arkansas...
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  • Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU, The Valley or Valley) is a public historically black university in Mississippi Valley State, Mississippi, adjacent...
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  • village Lexington, Minnesota city Lexington, Mississippi city Lexington, Missouri city Lexington, Nebraska city Lexington, New York town Lexington, North...
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  • and Yahle was successfully revived. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, United States, was at home when his hospice nurse called a coroner...
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    Lexington Bridge is a plate girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River between Saint Paul and Lilydale, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 2004...
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  • Alabama about 1840. Captain James Reedy, her father, removed to Lexington, Mississippi, during her infancy. From an early age, Vance enjoyed studying and...
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    held out. His new owners immediately sent Lexington to Natchez, Mississippi to train under J. B. Pryor. Lexington raced at age three and four and although...
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  • Otis "Big Smokey" Smothers (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    sometimes confused. Smothers, who was African-American, was born in Lexington, Mississippi, and was taught by his aunt to play the harmonica and the guitar...
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  • Lonnie Pitchford (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi, United States. He was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned...
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  • visited All Saints Industrial School in Lexington, Mississippi. She found difficult conditions in the Mississippi Delta. Some of the teachers did not have...
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  • Don't Kill It (category Films set in Mississippi)
    photography commenced over the 2015 Christmas holiday season in Lexington, Mississippi. Filming concluded after 17 days of shooting, with the film having...
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  • Lee Cooper (guitarist) (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    successor to Howlin' Wolf's original lead guitarist. Probably born in Lexington, Mississippi, where he grew up, he started performing on the electric guitar...
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    Ronald Kirklin (category People from Lexington, Mississippi)
    Virginia from 2014 to 2016. Kirklin, a native of Lexington, Mississippi, graduated from Mississippi Valley State University as a Distinguished Military...
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