Mississippi County

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Comprising 411 square miles of Missouri's great alluvial plain, this county, organized in 1845, is a high producer of cotton, grain, and soybeans. The Mississippi (Algonquin Indian for Great Water), flowing along some 70 miles of the county's eastern ...

Mississippi County Bank

In a spot once home to the Mercantile Opera House, this Classical Revival-style building was built in 1936 as Mississippi County Bank, showcasing Italian marble and rich wood throughout. Continuing to finance farming interests, First National Bank, then, Union Planters ...

South Mississippi County War Memorial

In Memoriam

To those men from

South Mississippi County

who gave their lives

in World Wars I & II,

Korea, and Southeast Asia

Lt. John McGavock Grider - PVT. William A. Charles

PFC Clarence Croft - CPL. Billie W. Craine

PFC Hershel Brock - PVT. Billy E. Hooper

PFC ...

Confederate Veterans of Mississippi County

1861 - 1865

In memory

of the

Confederate Veterans

of

Mississippi County

erected A.D. 1934

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Elliott Fletcher Chapter

Bytheville Arkansas

Marker is at the intersection of North Walnut Street (U.S. 61) and West Hale Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Walnut Street. ...

Mississippi County Court House

The county seat of Mississippi County, created in 1833, was located at Osceola in 1836. Since about 1900 the county has maintained another court house at Blytheville for the northern district. The county was named for the great river which ...

Mississippi County Courthouse

Osceola

This Neoclassical Courthouse was built in 1912 on land donated by Judge W.J. Driver. Constructed of unusual brick, the building features a flat roof supporting a copper dome with large concrete terra cotta decorations and round polished inserts on the ...