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Roxie, Mississippi. / 31.50528°N 91.06722°W / 31.50528; -91.06722. Roxie is a town in Franklin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 497 at the 2010 census, [2] down from 569 at the 2000 census. This rural town developed with the construction of railroads in the area.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Nrhp Reference NumberNameImageLocality74001047Natchez 31°32′42″N 91°23′34″W / 31.71000448Biloxi 30°23′33″N 88°51′46″W / 30.72000702Wayside 33°10′08″N 91°09′32″W / 33.78001576The people of the new town named the place for John Q. Graves baby daughter, Roxie. The town was incorporated in 1890. Before the railroad ceased operations, Roxie was a thriving little town with many stores, a couple of hotels, a movie theater and quite a few more residents.
practice of slavery in the U.S., sustained it, and eventually led to southern states’ secession and to the Civil War. Cotton was so central to the South’s economy—and to the global economy—that South Carolina Senator James Henry Hammond famously declared in a speech to the U.S. Senate in 1858 that no “sane nation…on earth dares
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Two were Margaret and Peter Hunt. Oral family history states that Margaret was a weaver on the plantation, and Peter was a Tanner of animal hides. America eventually married Joshua Hunt, a former slave of Henry Hunt. In total, America had seven children. In approximately 1856, Henry Hunt moved them to Franklin County, near Roxie, Mississippi.
<p>The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has cataloged over 2,500 maps in its "published information" collection. They include hand-drawn sketches of towns, localities, plantations, and battlefields, as well as published maps from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries.</p> <p>MDAH staff digitized over 600 paper maps for this online exhibit. The earliest is a triptych ...
Roxie was formed as a shipping point on the Y & M V Railroad in 1886. The railroad was a big part of life in Roxie for many years. When the railroad left, most of the people did too! But we still have a few folks here, and we are really happy to have you visit our little town.
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