"Ornamental Nursery Capital of Mississippi"
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Markerman62
N 30° 55.535 W 088° 35.402
16R E 348078 N 3422438
A marker in Lucedale about the birth of ornamental plant production.
Waymark Code: WMNGEC
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2015
Views: 3
In 1898, E.E. Bolen established a nursery and orchard company in George County. Other wholesale nurseries were established in the early 1900s. The production of ornamental plants, trees and shrubs has since become a thriving commercial industry in the area
Date Installed:: 2001
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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