Wool Market, Mississippi
Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
30°28′04″N 88°59′45″W / 30.46778°N 88.99583°W / 30.46778; -88.9958339532
Wool Market (also Woolmarket) is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, Mississippi.[1] Wool Market is approximately 2.7 miles (4.3 km) northwest of Biloxi and part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area.
Historically, the settlement was called "Wool Market",[2][3] though presently, the one-word "Woolmarket" has been adopted, as can be observed at "Woolmarket Elementary School", and in official documents published by Harrison County government.[4][5]
A post office operated under the name Wool Market from 1889 to 1911 and under the name Woolmarket Rural Station from 1969 to 1982.[6]
Notable person
- Sandra Rushing, women's college basketball coach[7]
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wool Market
- ^ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Goodspeed. 1891. pp. 200.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 992.
- ^ "Woolmarket Elementary School". Harrison County School District. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
- ^ "Community Plan for Western Harrison County" (PDF). Harrison County Board of Supervisors. February 1, 2008.
- ^ "Harrison County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ^ Knight, Bill (June 21, 1998). "UTEP's Rushing Still 'Daddy's Girl'". El Paso Times. Retrieved March 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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Municipalities and communities of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States
County seats: Biloxi and Gulfport
communities
- Cuevas
- Howison
- Lizana
- Mississippi City
- Wool Market
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