Hazlehurst, Mississippi Hazlehurst, Mississippi Amtrak station at Hazlehurst Amtrak station at Hazlehurst Location of Hazlehurst, Mississippi Location of Hazlehurst, Mississippi Hazlehurst, Mississippi is positioned in the US Hazlehurst, Mississippi - Hazlehurst, Mississippi Hazlehurst is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Copiah County, Mississippi, United States, positioned about 30 miles (48 km) south of the state capital Jackson along Interstate 55.
The assembly of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad began on November 3, 1865, stimulating evolution of Hazlehurst at the stockyards stop.
Hazlehurst, an engineer for the new barns . A town/city in Georgia is also titled for him. As Hazlehurst grew, Gallatin declined into a settlement at a crossroads.
In April 1872, the council ordered the county board of supervisors to hold an election to decide whether the governmental center of county should be moved from Gallatin to Hazlehurst.
After a majority voted for the change, Gallatin's old brick courthouse was torn down and reassembled in Hazlehurst.
Hazlehurst is positioned slightly east of the center of Copiah County. U.S.
Route 51 passes through the center of the city, dominant north 9 miles (14 km) to Crystal Springs and south 20 miles (32 km) to Brookhaven.
Mississippi Highway 28 crosses US 51 and I-55 in the northern part of town, dominant east 14 miles (23 km) to Georgetown and west 46 miles (74 km) to Fayette.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Hazlehurst has a total region of 4.4 square miles (11.5 km2), of which 4.4 square miles (11.3 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.02%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.1% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $25,008, and the median income for a family was $26,081.
The town/city is served by the Hazlehurst City School District.
See also: Hazlehurst (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Hazlehurst.
Amtrak Train 59, the southbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Hazlehurst at 11:55 am daily with service to Brookhaven, Mc - Comb, Hammond, and New Orleans.
Amtrak Train 58, the northbound City of New Orleans, is scheduled to depart Hazlehurst at 4:17 pm daily with service to Jackson, Yazoo City, Greenwood, Memphis, Newbern-Dyersburg, Fulton, Carbondale, Centralia, Effingham, Mattoon, Champaign-Urbana, Kankakee, Homewood, and Chicago.
Joe Bailey (1863-1929), an attorney and US Senator from Texas, lived and worked in Hazlehurst before moving. John Epperson, actor and singer best known for his performance as Lypsinka; born in Hazlehurst Robert Johnson, the Delta blues musician, was born in Hazlehurst.
Johnson's birth home is positioned near the courthouse; the City of Hazlehurst is in litigation to determine its future.
Burnita Shelton Matthews (1894-1988), born near Hazlehurst, attorney and first woman appointed as federal judge to precinct court, confirmed in 1950 Print Matthews (August 27, 1840 November 6, 1883), a white Republican civil reformer and black rights promote who was murdered at the polls after defying small-town white supremacists; born near Hazlehurst Mc - Corkle, Jr., American agricultural historian, born in Hazlehurst in 1935 Benjamin Morgan Palmer, 19th-century Presbyterian minister, made Hazlehurst his family's home in the summer of 1862 as he served as chaplain with the Washington Artillery of New Orleans.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hazlehurst city, Mississippi".
Media related to Hazlehurst, Mississippi at Wikimedia Commons Map of Mississippi from 1836 showing the locale of Gallatin in Copiah County Municipalities and communities of Copiah County, Mississippi, United States County seat: Hazlehurst Crystal Springs Hazlehurst
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