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Mississippi ... the Magnolia State

Fact Contributors: Mrs. Medevic's 4th Grade Class, Mrs. Prather's 4th Grade, Mrs. Bingham's Second Grade

» Capital City: Jackson
» Location: 32 N, 90 W
» Area: 47,716 square miles
» Population: 2,670,000
» State Bird: Mockingbird
» State Tree: Magnolia
» Other State Symbols: White-Tailed Deer, Largemouth Bass
» State Flower: Magnolia
» State Motto: By valor and arms
» Statehood: 20th state, 1817
» Popular Tourist Destinations: Natchez Trace Parkway, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center
» Products: cotton, soybeans, poultry, cattle, catfish, lumber/wood products, furniture
» Firsts: Hernando DeSoto was the first to discover this area in 1540; PTA began in Crystal Springs (Oct. 1909), 4-H began in Holmes Co. (1907), Coke was first bottled in Vicksburg, H.T. Merrill made the first round-trip transoceanic flight to England in a plane loaded with ping pong balls (1928).

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