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We would like to provide the residents of  Prentiss  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Prentiss Home page. The Prentiss Home page provides as much information as possible on Prentiss. Knowing Prentiss’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Prentiss’s Home page, you will also find Prentiss’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Prentiss has a population of 1204. 50.7% of Prentiss’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.3 are female. 45.6% of Prentiss is married and 65.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $86,817, and the average rent is $642. Household median income in Prentiss is $31,983, and the individual median income is $16,843. Prentiss’s Ethnic is the following: White(52.1%), Black(47.3%), Multiple(0.7%).


Originally part of Lawrence County, the town was first named "Blountville", after William Blount, an early settler and merchant.Blountville High School was established in 1885 on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land.A depot was established in Blountville when the Pearl & Leaf Rivers Railroad (later Illinois Central Railroad) was completed in 1903.


That same year the town was officially established and named "Prentiss", possibly after Seargent Smith Prentiss, a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives and U.S. Representative from Mississippi, or after Prentiss Webb Berry, a prominent landowner in the area. When Jefferson Davis County was created in 1906, a special election determined that Prentiss would serve as the county seat.In 1907, Jonas Edward Johnson and his wife Bertha LaBranche Johnson established the Prentiss Institute.


Situated on 40 acres (16 ha) of land, with remnants of slave quarters on the property, it was considered one of the finest schools for African Americans in Mississippi. The school at first taught only the elementary grades, and began with 40 students whose tuition was often paid with chickens, eggs and produce.


A Rosenwald classroom was built on the campus in 1926, and by 1953 the "Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute" included a high school and junior college, had 44 faculty and more than 700 students, and included 24 buildings and 400 acres (160 ha) of farmland, pasture and forest. In 1955, Heifer International donated 15 pure-bred cows to the school with the intention that the offspring be donated to needy farm families.


It is noteworthy that the school gave some of the animals to poor white families. The school closed in 1989 and was designated an official Mississippi landmark in 2002.Ralph Fults and Raymond Hamilton, members of the notorious Barrow Gang, robbed the bank in Prentiss in 1935.In 1958, Rev. H.D. Darby of Prentiss filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi's rigid voting eligibility laws for African Americans; it was the first lawsuit of its kind in Mississippi.Prentiss police officer Ron Jones, Jr.


was shot and killed by Cory Maye while executing a search warrant in 2001.


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