Meadville News

Much has changed in the 200 years since Franklin County's inception. Cotton bales are no longer floated down the Homochitto River, and horses no longer stand tied up outside the county courthouse.

Before there was a Mississippi, there was Franklin County, and Monday Franklin County residents will celebrate the bicentennial of the county's founding.

The Franklin County bicentennial committee announces plans for upcoming events and the availability of specialty merchandise available for purchase to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the county.

Franklin County will celebrate its bicentennial on Monday, exactly 200 years after its formation by the Mississippi Territorial authorities on Dec.

Myron Wayne "Jack" Seale of Natchez was a notorious Klansman implicated along with his brother and father for the Franklin County, Miss., murders of two black teenagers in 1964 and the 1965 murder of a fellow Klansman for allegedly informing to the FBI.

From Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, Harry Maclean recounts the murder case against Klansman James Ford Seale in The Past is Never Dead.

Officials say the Veterans Affairs Meadville Clinic in Franklin County is scheduled to close its doors on Nov.

Veterans receiving health care services in Meadville will soon have to travel to Natchez or Jackson for services, officials said.

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI a ' Construction is under way on three segments of U.S. Highway 84 throughout the state, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Officials say the biggest birthday party in Franklin County history has been delayed until next year to make sure that everything planned for the event is prepared.

MEADVILLE a ' A Meadville woman died Saturday in a car crash on U.S. 84 in Franklin County.