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5 unusual facts about Harrison County


Harrison County, Mississippi

Harrison County has received coverage on CNN and other media regarding the beatings of inmates, and the death of inmate Jessie Lee Williams Jr., who died while in custody on Feb. 4, 2006, which have occurred in the Harrison County Jail in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Harrison County, Missouri

McCaskill was elected in 2006 by a narrow margin statewide, but Harrison County supported her opponent, incumbent Jim Talent.

Harrison County, Ohio

Benjamin Cowen - Assistant Secretary of the Interior, who was principal political facilitator in establishing Yellowstone National Park and the idea that the use of national parks is for all Americans

Politics of Marshall, Texas

In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush won Harrison County with 16,456, to John Kerry's 9,637.

Squire Boone

The settlement is in what is now called Boone Township, and it began to flourish early on.


Boyer River

In southern Sac County it turns southwestward and flows through Crawford, Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties, past the towns of Deloit, Denison, Arion, Dow City, Dunlap, Woodbine, Logan and Missouri Valley.

Glidas, Indiana

Glidas is an unincorporated community in the Heth Township of Harrison County, Indiana, United States.

Joseph Rosier

In 1890, Rosier was a teacher of the village school at Bristol, West Virginia and was principal of the public schools of Salem in 1891 and 1892; in 1893 and 1894 he was superintendent of schools of Harrison County, West Virginia and was a member of the faculty of Salem College from 1894 to 1896.


see also

Cynthiana

Cynthiana, Kentucky, a city in Harrison County, Kentucky, United States

Scottsville, Texas

Scott's lavish plantation was said to be identical to Jefferson Davis' mansion in Mississippi and he eventually became the largest slave owner in Harrison County.