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Jacinto, founded in 1836, was named for the Battle of San Jacinto in the Texas Revolution.〔Luke Dove: "The Courthouse at Jacinto," ''Capital Area Bar Association Newsletter'', April 2011, http://www.caba.ms/downloads/caba-newsletter-april2011.pdf, pp. 14-15.〕〔WLBT-Channel 3, Jackson, Mississippi: ''Look Around Mississippi - Old Jacinto Courthouse'', http://www.wlbt.com/global/story.asp?S=5997611, 01/26/07.〕〔Courthouselover: ''Jacinto Marker (Jacinto, Mississippi)'', http://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/4456452660/, photo taken on March 19, 2010.〕 Jacinto was located in the geographic center of the original Tishomingo County, Mississippi.〔Courthouselover: ''Old Tishomingo County Courthouse (Jacinto, Mississippi)'', http://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/4456457422/in/photostream/, photo taken on March 19, 2010.〕 Within ten years of its founding, Jacinto became a flourishing town with stores, hotels, schools, churches, and taverns, serving as the center of government and commerce for the county.〔 Jacinto is the site of a courthouse built in 1854 in the Federal style as the county courthouse for the original Tishomingo County.〔〔courthouselover: ''Old Tishomingo County Courthouse (Jacinto, Mississippi)'', http://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/4456457422/in/photostream/, photo taken on March 19, 2010.〕 The courthouse has been refurbished and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.〔 It is open to visitors. In 1869, Tishomingo was divided into three counties: Tishomingo, Alcorn, and Prentiss.〔 Corinth became the county seat of newly established Alcorn County, Iuka of the reduced Tishomingo County, and Booneville of the new county of Prentiss.〔 When the county seat was moved from Jacinto in 1870, the town's importance declined, and town residents and businesses began moving away.〔 Jacinto appears on the ''Glens'' U.S. Geological Survey Map.〔Mississippi Hometown Locator: http://mississippi.hometownlocator.com/ms/alcorn/jacinto.cfm, accessed 25 Nov 2011.〕〔Lat-Long.com: ''Jacinto, MS'', http://www.lat-long.com/Latitude-Longitude-671757-Mississippi-Jacinto.html, accessed 25 Nov 2011.〕 ==Gallery== Image: Jacinto courthouse 23 Mar 2014.jpg|Western façade of the Old Tishomingo County courthouse in Jacinto, 2014 Image: Jacinto_doctors_office.jpg|Doctor’s Office on the Old Tishomingo County courthouse square in Jacinto, 2014 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacinto, Mississippi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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