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Desoto Christian Academy is a private school in Olive Branch, Mississippi . The school was founded in 1970 as Ark Academy, a segregation academy for caucasian students exclusively, one of dozens opened across Mississippi at that time in the wake of Supreme Court rulings on school integration. Since being renamed Desoto County Academy in 1974 ...
State. ← MS 172. → MS 182. Mississippi Highway 178 ( MS 178 ), or simply "Old 78", is a 119.1-mile-long (191.7 km) east-west state highway across the northern portion of the state of Mississippi. It is the former alignment of U.S. Route 78 (US 78), used from the 1940s until the 1990s. With the exception of a break at the Tennessee-Tombigbee ...
Stars and stripes adorn its chest. In its talons, the eagle grasps an olive branch symbolizing a desire for peace and a quiver of arrows representing the power to wage war. The outer circle of the seal contains the text "The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi" at the top and the words "In God We Trust" at the bottom.
When the first post office was established in 1846, Mrs. Frances Wilson Blocker–a descendant of one of the community’s founders–suggested the name Olive Branch. She felt the new name symbolized a dove bringing a branch to the seagoing Noah. Among the earliest settlers in the Olive Branch area were Stephen Flinn and his wife’s brother-in ...
Mississippi Highway 302 (MS 302), also known as Goodman Road, is the main east-west highway in DeSoto County, Mississippi, extending into Marshall County to the east. It runs approximately two miles (3.2 km) south of the Mississippi / Tennessee state line, from a western terminus at Mississippi Highway 161 (old U.S. Route 61 or US 61) in Walls ...
DeSoto County School District. DeSoto County Schools is a public school district based in Hernando, Mississippi ( USA) and serving all public school students in DeSoto County in the Memphis metropolitan area. With an enrollment of more than 30,000 students, DeSoto County is the largest school district in the state of Mississippi.
Website. www.view.com. View, Inc. is an American glass-manufacturing company specializing in the production of smart glass . Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in Milpitas, California with a manufacturing facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi .
