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unusual facts about McComb-Pike County Airport


Pike County Airport

McComb-Pike County Airport (John E. Lewis Field) in McComb, Mississippi, United States (FAA: MCB)


Cape Henry Light

McComb was one of the architects involved in the construction of New York City Hall and would design other lighthouses.

Centralia, Illinois

Amtrak Train 59, the southbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Centralia at 12:25am daily with service to Carbondale, Fulton, Newbern-Dyersburg, Memphis, Greenwood, Yazoo City, Jackson, Hazlehurst, Brookhaven, McComb, Hammond, and New Orleans.

Frank McComb

The 14-track set produced by both McComb and Branford Marsalis was entirely self-penned with the exception of the bookending covers of the gospel staple "His Eye Is On The Sparrow," and the jazz standard "Some Other Time."

Hollis Watkins

Watkins joined SNCC, and began canvassing potential voters around McComb, Mississippi.

King Solomon Hill

After much speculation and controversy, he is recognized to have been Joe Holmes (1897, McComb, Mississippi – 1949, Sibley, Louisiana), a self-taught guitarist from Mississippi.

Lee Christmas

As a young man, he worked as a pilot on tugboats on Lake Pontchartrain and later became a brakeman living in McComb, Mississippi for the Illinois Central System in 1879.

Loy Allen Bowlin

Loy Allen Bowlin (1909–1995), also known as The Original Rhinestone Cowboy, was an outsider artist from McComb, Mississippi.

McComb, Ohio

"The Cookie Factory", as it's better known to residents, manufactures cookies, crackers, and other edible items.

William McComb

After the war, McComb lived in Alabama and Mississippi, eventually settling in Gordonsville, Louisa County, Virginia, where he was a farmer for nearly fifty years.


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