Group Tour Escort Manual - Mississippi

MAGnoLiA
Population: 2071
Main Industries: Medical, Wood Processing, Windows & Aluminum Doors, Paper
Major Festivals/Events: Annual Mardi Gras Festival & Parade, Magnolia Anthology: A Cemetery Play, Garden Club’s
Annual Flower Show, Confederate Memorial Day Ceremony, May in Magnolia includes an Antique
& Craft Fair, Historic Cemetery Tour, Pilgrimage Tour of Historic Homes, Magnolia Porches: Tasting
Tea, “Crypt Tales on the Square,” Annual “Taste of Magnolia”
Tourism Office Phone Number: 601-684-8664 x106
l Magnolia, named by early settler Mary Sinnott due to number of large beautiful Magnolia trees here, is the County Seat for Pike
County, Mississippi, and has the most Industry per capita designation, with over 50 structures on the National Historical Register.
l Visit the historic homes of: Walter M. Lampton – major benefactor in establishing “Beauvoir” in Biloxi, MS, at Confederate
Veteran’s Hospital and as a shrine to Jefferson Davis, the only Confederate President.; Judge James H. Price, the only Mississippi
State Supreme Court Justice buried in Pike County; three of Mississippi’s premier Queen Anne Mansions.
l The Cemetery has a wealth of history. You will find Will Price – ex-husband of actress Maureen O’Hara, technical director of
“Gone with the Wind” and dialogue director of “Hunchback of Notre Dame,” buried here; as well as Confederate Brigadier General
Evander McNair and the “Central House” Confederate Hospital dead are buried here.
l Notable Mississippi architect C.H. Lindsey designed Neo-Classical Home for Judge James H. Price.
l Mississippi Garden Clubs voted Magnolia the “Cleanest Town in Mississippi” of its size.
For more information about Magnolia, visit www.DiscoverMcComb.com