Liberty, Mississippi
| Liberty, Mississippi | |
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Amite County Courthouse in Liberty
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 Location of Liberty, Mississippi |
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 Liberty, Mississippi
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| Coordinates: 31°9′39″N 90°48′14″W / 31.16083°N 90.80389°WCoordinates: 31°9′39″N 90°48′14″W / 31.16083°N 90.80389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Amite |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Richard H. Stratton |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.0 sq mi (5.3 km2) |
| • Land | 2.0 sq mi (5.3 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 338 ft (103 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 728 |
| • Density | 353/sq mi (136.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 39645 |
| Area code(s) | 601 |
| FIPS code | 28-40640 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0672435 |
Liberty is a town in Amite County, Mississippi. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 728 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Amite County.
The town can be accessed via I-55, then west on Mississippi Highway 24. McGehee Air Park is located about a mile west of town.
Liberty celebrates its Heritage Days Festival during the first weekend of each May.
Air Cruisers manufacturing plant is located in Liberty. Owned by Zodiac Aerospace, the plant produces evacuation slides, life rafts, and life vests for the aviation industry.
Eleven sites in or near Liberty are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Liberty was incorporated on February 24, 1809.
The Amite County Courthouse in Liberty is the oldest in Mississippi. Erected in 1839, the courthouse was enlarged and modernized in 1936. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Amite Female Seminary (also known as the 'Little Red Schoolhouse'), built in 1853, was a girls finishing school located in Liberty. During the American Civil War, in the spring of 1863, Federal troops under the command of Colonel Benjamin Grierson, a former music teacher, burned the school, but spared the school's music building. The Federal commander permitted musical instruments to be removed, and was prepared to give the order to torch the building, when he recognized the music school's director, Rev. Milton Shirk, as a former classmate from New York. The two-story, two-room music building survives to this day on Mississippi Highway 569, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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