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Pearl River Rundown Tournament

Columbia has a new disc golf course at the Columbia Water Park!  The course is called “Pearl River Landing” and the first tournament, the “Pearl River Rundown,” will be held there on October 15, 2011.  For those not familiar with disc golf, it is a rapidly growing sport that is played much like regular golf, except [...]

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First Annual Blackberry Festival

Some really cool people braved the really hot weather (100 degrees plus) to come enjoy the first annual Mississippi Blackberry Festival in Columbia, MS this Fourth of July weekend.  Although the blackberries were scarce this year, because of the extremely dry season, there were blackberry dishes all over town.  Many of the local restaurants participated [...]

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Mississippi Blackberry Festival

The first annual Mississippi Blackberry Festival will be coming to Columbia, MS on the first weekend in July.  It will be a two day festival on July 1 and 2 featuring food, arts & crafts, games, music, and activities presented by the Columbia Trolley Association, LLC.  There will be events held all over town including a Classic [...]

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Art Gallery Grand Opening

The Artwistic Revolution Art Gallery opened in grand style on the evening of April 30, 2011 with a large crowd of art lovers and artists enjoying food, drinks, music, and conversation.  The gallery, located at 216 Second Street in Columbia, is a project of the Columbia Artists Cooperative that features works in painting, sculpture, photography, [...]

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Marion County Bicentennial

Marion County is celebrating its 200th Birthday this year!!!  Established in 1811, Marion County was part of the original Mississippi Territory before Mississippi became a state, and it was host for the Pearl River Convention for Statehood in 1816.  There are numerous events planned throughout the year to celebrate our Bicentennial in 2011, after the [...]

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Waynesboro Mystery Tour

A big white bus of over fifty tourists came from Waynesboro, MS on a mystery tour of Marion County on April 21, 2011.  They did not know where they were going, but they really enjoyed it when they got here.  After refreshing themselves from the trip at the MCDP building, the tour group was joined [...]

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New Marion County Brochure

A new brochure has been designed for the historical sites of Marion County as a combined effort of the Tourism Committee of the Marion County Development Partnership and the Marion County Historical Society.  The tri-fold brochure features interesting sites such as the John Ford Home, the Hugh White Governor’s Mansion, the Marion County Courthouse, the [...]

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Ten Generals Exhibit

The Marion County and City of Columbia Museum recently presented an exhibit featuring ten military Generals that visited Marion County before the year 1865.  Two of these Generals became Presidents of the United States, and one became Governor of the Mississippi Territory.  The Ten Generals Exhibit was assembled by Marion County Historical Society members Chris [...]

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