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unusual facts about Hattiesburg


Spanish Fort High School

The first was Hattiesburg/Oak Grove marching contest in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and the White Sands Marching Contest in Foley, Alabama.


Antonelli College

Branches in Jackson and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were added in January 1996, and in 2009, the West Chester, Ohio, branch became the newest addition to the Antonelli College family.

Austin Davis

Davis proposed to longtime girlfriend Heather Evans on December 17, 2011 at a Southern Miss basketball game at the Reed Green Coliseum on the Southern Miss campus in Hattiesburg.

Bob Didier

Robert Daniel Didier (born February 16, 1949 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States) is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams from 1969 through 1974.

Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi

32 law officials were sent to Hattiesburg to assist with traffic control near the intersection with I-59 and U.S. Route 49.

Gulf and Ship Island Railroad

By 1902, the 74 miles (119 km) of G&SIRR, between Gulfport and Hattiesburg, averaged one sawmill and one turpentine distillery every 3 miles (4.8 km).

Illegal immigration in Mississippi

Democrat Governor hopeful and current Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree doesn’t support the immigration bill because it would merely be another law passed by the state that would fall on municipal governments to fund.

Laurel Black Cats

Though the Jackson Metro Baseball League (JMBL) had began to form in the state, Jones kept the Black Cats as an independent team playing local community teams such as Bay Springs, MS, Heidelberg,MS, Paulding,MS, and Meridian, MS. After remaining rivals with the Hattiesburg Black Sox for half of a century, the rivalry would come to an end in under Jones due to a personal disagreement between Hattiesburg’s owner Trey Aby.

Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan

Hogan could have attended classes and received credit in one of Mississippi's two public, coeducational programs leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, but these were at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg (178 miles from Columbus) and the University of Mississippi in Oxford (114 miles from Columbus).

Nan Kelley

A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Kelley initially finished first runner-up in the 1985 Miss Mississippi pageant to Susan Akin, but became Miss Mississippi when Akin was named Miss America that year.

Photographers of the American civil rights movement

Herbert Eugene Randall, Jr. photographed the effects of the Civil Rights Movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1964, at the request of Sanford R. Leigh, the Director of Mississippi Freedom Summer's Hattiesburg project.

Richard Speer

Before transitioning to print journalism in 2000 he worked as a news writer, editor, and producer for WESH-TV (Orlando), WHLT-TV (Hattiesburg, Mississippi), WJTV (Jackson, Mississippi), and KFSM-TV (Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas).

Roberts Stadium

M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the The University of Southern Mississippi's campus.

U.S. Route 49

U.S. 49 passes Hattiesburg's primary medical facility, Forrest General Hospital, and the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi before arriving at another, more standard cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 59.

Various state highway interchanges and junctions are encountered before the route passes near Camp Shelby, then through an interchange with U.S. Route 98 just south of Hattiesburg.

United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (in case citations, S.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Natchez, Meridian, and Jackson.


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