The Piney Woods School - Simpson County - Mississippi
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N 32° 03.659 W 089° 59.847
16S E 217005 N 3551126
A Mississippi Historical Marker on the Piney Woods School Campus.
Waymark Code: WMCHZP
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2011
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Founded in 1909, by Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones, who came to Mississippi to further the education of the African American community. The Piney Woods School wonce housed the Mississippi Colored School for the Blind. Dr. Jones presided over the school until 1974, and died in 1975
Date Installed:: 2011/1/1
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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