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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Bernard Parish in fulfillment of plans to establish a deep water port connecting the Mississippi Sound to New Orleans and serve the sugar plantations and vegetable farms located in that area.
Of utmost concern was American access to the Mississippi River and the port at New Orleans, control of which by an unfriendly foreign power would seriously impair American commerce.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Drake was to create a distributor with a reputation for excellent customer service to the veterinarians in Alabama and Mississippi who were often neglected by the existing distributors in distant Atlanta, Memphis, and New Orleans.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Located less than an hour from New Orleans, visitors are invited to come and enjoy the sounds of the boats as they steam by and relax in the quiet splendor of a historic plantation nestled along the banks of the Mississippi River.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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New Orleans street-bands and musicians like Freddie Small, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Sweet Emma Barrett are also featured.
Tommy Johnson was to Mississippi Delta blues as Professor Longhair was to New Orleans funk.
Visit New Orleans and sail down the Mississippi then relax in the famous French quarter with sounds of the Jazz music echoing down the streets and in every bar.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Continuing education at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary extension at Mississippi College.
Ron is a graduate of Mississippi State University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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The United States wanted to acquire the area near New Orleans primarily to guarantee its right to sail vessels down the Mississippi River through Spanish territory and unload goods at New Orleans for shipment to the Atlantic coast and Europe.
New Orleans also was the scene of a key naval action in the Civil War, in which Admiral David Farragut opened the southern Mississippi to Union forces.
Emery was a member of the crew which sailed the 887 from its launching at Dravo Shipyard in Pittsburgh PA down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.
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