Winona, Mississippi Winona, Mississippi Location in Montgomery County and the state of Mississippi.
Location in Montgomery County and the state of Mississippi.
Winona, Mississippi is positioned in the US Winona, Mississippi - Winona, Mississippi County Montgomery The now-abandoned depot in Winona was a stop for the City of New Orleans until 1995 Winona is a town/city in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
It is the governmental center of county of Montgomery County. Winona is known in the small-town region as "The Crossroads of North Mississippi" due to its central locale at the intersection of U.S.
1.2 Winona Middleton, Mississippi was a town that advanced in the 19th century two miles west of Winona's site.
Some locals consider it the predecessor to Winona.
After the barns was assembled to the east, evolution shifted to what became Winona and bypassed Middleton.
As a result of the barns line and station being assembled here clean water Middleton, Winona was established and began to grow.
Winona was incorporated as a town on May 2, 1861.
Settlers were thriving because of the barns access and Winona became a busy trading town.
Captain William Witty, an early settler from North Carolina, was for years a dominant Winona merchant and established the first bank in the county.
In 1871, the Reconstruction-era state council organized Montgomery County from portions of Carroll and other counties, and Winona was designated as its county seat.
Some citizens left the town in an accomplishment to outrun the epidemic, which spread with river passengers throughout the Mississippi Delta and close-by counties.
Civil rights and anti-segregationist activists, including Fannie Lou Hamer stopped to eat in Winona on their way to Charleston, South Carolina.
Stopping in Winona, Mississippi, the group was arrested on a false charge and jailed by white policemen.
Once in jail, Hamer and her colleagues were, per orders of small-town law officers, beaten savagely by inmates of the Montgomery County jail, almost to the point of death. made a stop in Winona amid which he was ambushed by a small-town barber, Ryan Lynch, an outspoken white supremacist.
On the morning of July 16, 1996, Curtis Flowers entered Tardy Furniture in downtown Winona and murdered the owner of the store, Bertha Tardy, and three employees of the store.
In November 2014, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Flowers' fourth conviction and denied a seventh trial.
Flowers' trials cost Montgomery County taxpayers $340,000.
Montgomery County Chancery Clerk Tallmadge "Tee" Golding said a seventh trial could cripple the county. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.1 square miles (34 km2), of which 13.1 square miles (34 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.31%) is water.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 5,043 citizens residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 48.10% White, 50.73% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.49% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.04% from other competitions, and 0.44% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 18.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Winona has recently received water and power athwart I-55 which has allowed more businesses, such as Pilot, to develop.
Due to the late evolution of water and power athwart I-55, Winona has until now been hindered in its ability to grow. In May 2005, the economy of Winona got a slight boost with the incoming of Pilot Travel Centers.
Winona Separate School District Winona Vocational Complex Winona Christian School The Winona Times Chris Faser, Jr., member of the Mississippi House of Representatives while living in Winona in the 1950s; later a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; aide to Louisiana Governor Jimmie Davis in both the 1944 and 1959 campaigns "Winona, Mississippi (WNA)".
"Winona Accommodation - Winona Hotels, Apartments, Motels, Holiday Parks".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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