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Hancock County, Mississippi, the Glossary

Hancock County is the southernmost county of the U.S. state of Mississippi and is named for Founding Father John Hancock.^[1]

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1812 establishments in Mississippi Territory
Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area

Ansley, Mississippi

Ansley is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States.

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Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Bay St. Hancock County, Mississippi and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District

The Bay St.

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Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. Hancock County, Mississippi and Biloxi, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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Clermont Harbor is an unincorporated community on the western end of Hancock County on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Hancock County, Mississippi and Clermont Harbor, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Diamondhead, Mississippi

Diamondhead is a city in southeastern Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. Hancock County, Mississippi and Diamondhead, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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Founding Fathers of the United States

The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.

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Free people of color

In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.

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Gainesville, Mississippi

Gainesville is a ghost town located in Hancock County, Mississippi, near the border of Louisiana.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Gulfport, Mississippi

Gulfport is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi after the state capital, Jackson.

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Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area

The Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region that includes four counties – Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and Stone.

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Hancock County School District (Mississippi)

The Hancock County School District is a public school district based in the community of Kiln, Mississippi (USA).

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Harrison County, Mississippi

Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Hancock County, Mississippi and Harrison County, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area and Mississippi counties.

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Hippie

A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964 and spread to different countries around the world.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was a devastating and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $186.3 billion (2022 USD) in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.

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Indian removal

The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.

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Interstate 10

Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System.

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Interstate 10 in Mississippi

Interstate 10 (I-10), a major east–west Interstate Highway in the southern areas of the United States, has a section of about in Mississippi.

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John Hancock

John Hancock (– October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

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Kiln, Mississippi

Kiln (pronounced "Kill") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. Hancock County, Mississippi and Kiln, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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Lakeshore, Mississippi

Lakeshore is an unincorporated community on the western end of Hancock County, Mississippi. Hancock County, Mississippi and Lakeshore, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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Leetown, Mississippi

Leetown is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States.

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Logtown, Mississippi

Logtown, Mississippi is a ghost town located in Hancock County, Mississippi.

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Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Mississippi Highway 43

Mississippi Highway 43 (MS 43) is a state highway in Mississippi that generally runs north–south in three segments: the first from US 90 near Bay St. Louis to MS 13 south of Columbia, resuming at MS 13 in southern Jefferson Davis County to end near Mendenhall, and finally starting again at MS 18 near Puckett to end at Attala Road 3122 in northern Attala County.

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Mississippi Highway 53

Mississippi Highway 53 (MS 53) is a state highway in Mississippi.

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Mississippi Highway 603

Mississippi Highway 603 (MS 603) is a state highway in Hancock County, Mississippi.

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Mississippi Highway 607

Mississippi Highway 607 (MS 607) is a state highway in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region.

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Napoleon, Mississippi

Napoleon is an unincorporated community located on the Pearl River in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Mississippi

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Mississippi.

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Necaise, Mississippi

Necaise, or Necaise Crossing, is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States.

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New Waveland Cafe and Clinic

The New Waveland Café and New Waveland Clinic together formed a disaster response center consisting of a combination café, soup kitchen, medical clinic, donation center, and market, that operated free of charge from September 5 to December 1, 2005 in immediate Post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast in Waveland, Hancock County, Mississippi.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Pearl River County, Mississippi

Pearl River County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Hancock County, Mississippi and Pearl River County, Mississippi are Mississippi counties.

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Pearlington, Mississippi

Pearlington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on U.S. Route 90, along the Pearl River, at the Louisiana state line. Hancock County, Mississippi and Pearlington, Mississippi are Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_County,_Mississippi

Also known as Hancock County, MS, History of Hancock County, Mississippi.

, Waveland, Mississippi, 2020 United States census.

Hancock County, Mississippi, the Glossary

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See also

1812 establishments in Mississippi Territory

Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area

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