Marks

About Marks Mississippi

The town of Marks was named after Leopold Marks (born 1851 - died 1910) who left Germany to avoid conscription by the German army. He landed in New York in 1868. He knew no English and arrived with only 27 cents in his pockets.

Nonetheless, Leopold Marks was Quitman County's first representative to the state legislature and served in that capacity for eight years. In 1875 he married; his wife, Pauline Marks, was born in 1852 but her year of death is unknown.

Teaching a way out of poverty on the Mississippi Delta -- with tough love - CBS News

It is worst in Mississippi, where the poverty rate is 22 percent. CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts met a man there who is trying to show young folks the way out. At Quitman County High School in Marks, Miss., where nearly half the students ...

Louisiana marks 200 years as a state - Hattiesburg American

Things can change a lot in two centuries. Nationally, the security of the transportation system was a big concern 200 years ago, especially after some unpleasant dealings a decade earlier with foreign extremists, which required the projection of ...

A Reward for Decades of Waiting - New York Times

But when Patricia Marks first stepped inside nearly a year ago, she didn’t want to leave. Ms. Marks, now 84, had gone to an open house in this city’s Silver Lake neighborhood as a sightseer and, she recalled, “I was just awed.”

MGCCC graduates milestone centennial class - Mississippi Press

BILOXI -- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College held its centennial ... "The 2012 centennial commencement ceremony marks a milestone in the lives of our graduates as well as a memorable moment in the history of the college," Gulf Coast ...

Mississippi County: One Year After the Breach - WSIL TV

MISSISSIPPI COUNTY, MO -- This Wednesday marks one year since the Army Corps of Engineers intentionally breached the Birds Point Levee in Southeast Missouri. The move helped relieve pressure on the levees at Cairo and other river communities, and came ...