Brookhaven, Mississippi Brookhaven, Mississippi Brookhaven City Hall Brookhaven City Hall Location of Brookhaven, Mississippi Location of Brookhaven, Mississippi Brookhaven, Mississippi is positioned in the US Brookhaven, Mississippi - Brookhaven, Mississippi Brookhaven (pronounced locally: broo-KAY-v n) is a small town/city in Lincoln County, Mississippi, southwest from the state capital of Jackson.
It is the governmental center of county of Lincoln County. It was titled after the Town of Brookhaven, New York, by founder Samuel Jayne in 1818.
Brookhaven is positioned in what was formerly Choctaw Indian territory.
The town/city was established in 1818 by Samuel Jayne from New York, who titled it after the Town of Brookhaven on Long Island. The barns came though Brookhaven in 1858. It connected Brookhaven with New Orleans to the south and Memphis to the north.
During the Civil War, Brookhaven was briefly occupied at noon on 29 April 1863 by a raiding party of Union cavalry under the command of Colonel Benjamin Grierson.
In 1936 Brookhaven was chosen to be the site of the Stahl-Urban garment plant. Department of Commerce), Brookhaven has a total region of 7.3 square miles (19 km2), of which 7.3 square miles (19 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.27%) is water.
The size of the City of Brookhaven was period in late 2007 to almost triple its previous area, through a vote of annexation, to bring in suburban developments encircling the older town and equalize taxing and services provided to the new urbane area. As of the census of the United States Enumeration of 2000, (before the additional territories took in into the City in 2007, which would be reflected in more up-to-date census figures from the next United States Enumeration of 2010), there were 9,861 citizens , 3,810 homeholds, and 2,480 families residing in the City of Brookhaven.
In the City, the populace was spread out with 26.3% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the City was $24,632, and the median income for a family was $30,950.
The City of Brookhaven is served by the Brookhaven School District of enhance schools.
There is also a private school, Brookhaven Academy, that serves the town/city and encircling area.
The statewide magnet high school, the Mississippi School of the Arts is also positioned in the city.
Four Lincoln County enhance schools are also positioned in Brookhaven's non-urban areas: Bogue Chitto Attendance Center, Enterprise Attendance Center, Loyd Star Attendance Center and West Lincoln Attendance Center.
The former institution of higher learning Whitworth Female College, established in 1858, was positioned in Brookhaven.
Brookhaven is a part of the Jackson, Mississippi Television Market, including news stations WLBT, WJTV, WAPT, and WDBD.
See also: Brookhaven (Amtrak station) Amtrak's (National Rail Passenger Corporation) famous (song ballad written and sung by folk singer Arlo Guthrie from 1973) "City of New Orleans" serves Brookhaven, going north and south on the old Illinois Central and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio barns lines.
1940), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame, played for San Diego Chargers of old American Football League and National Football League's Dallas Cowboys; attended Brookhaven High School. Barnett, physician and surgeon from Brookhaven; member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1992 to 2008. Jim Brewer, Maxwell Street blues musician, was born in Brookhaven.
Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of World - Com, lived both in and near Brookhaven before being sent to prison for white-collar fraud.
Richard Scruggs, lawyer, was born and spent his childhood in Brookhaven a b Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Brookhaven, MS (BRH) Great American Stations "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
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