mystery locality in Mississippi

[Thomas Lammers]

At 03:43 PM 3/7/01 -0800, you wrote:

>This one has us stumped: I've searched the USGS site, a listing of all US
>colleges, and a listing of all the community colleges in Mississippi, and
>cannot figure out where the heck the following is or was:
>
>"A & M College, Mississippi, June 1930"

Don't know this one for sure, but in the USA,  "A & M" generally refers to
Agricultural & Mechanical [i.e., Engineering] Colleges.  Texas A & M is the
best known and maybe only current one, but in the Nineteenth Century, many
colleges started under provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act (so-called "land
grant" colleges) were called A & M.  Iowa State University was once the
Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts.  I suspect, but
don't know for sure, that Mississippi State University was once an A & M.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

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