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Tupelo, MS - History
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Welcome to the Tupelo Home page. The Tupelo Home page provides as much information as possible on Tupelo. Knowing Tupelo’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Tupelo’s Home page, you will also find Tupelo’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Tupelo has a population of 38251. 46.2% of Tupelo’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.8 are female. 43.5% of Tupelo is married and 59.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $151,224, and the average rent is $795. Household median income in Tupelo is $54,691, and the individual median income is $27,347. Tupelo’s Ethnic is the following: White(57.3%), Black(37.8%), Hispanic(4.3%), Other(2.3%), Multiple(1.2%), Asian(0.7%), Pacific(0.5%), Native(0.1%).
Tupelo () is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, United States. With an estimated population of 38,300, Tupelo is the sixth-largest city in Mississippi and is considered a commercial, industrial, and cultural hub of North Mississippi. Tupelo was incorporated in 1866. The area had earlier been settled as "Gum Pond" along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
On February 7, 1934, Tupelo became the first city to receive power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, thus giving it the nickname "The First TVA City". Much of the city was devastated by a major tornado in 1936 that still ranks as one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history. Following electrification, Tupelo boomed as a regional manufacturing and distribution center and was once considered a hub of the American furniture manufacturing industry.
Although many of Tupelo's manufacturing industries have declined since the 1990s, the city has continued to grow due to strong healthcare, retail, and financial service industries. Tupelo is the smallest city in the United States that is the headquarters of more than one bank with over $10 billion in assets.Tupelo has a deep connection to Mississippi's music history, being known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley and Diplo as well as the origin of the group Rae Sremmurd.
The city is home to multiple art and cultural institutions, including the Elvis Presley Birthplace and the 10,000-seat Cadence Bank Arena, the largest multipurpose indoor arena in Mississippi. Tupelo is the only city in the Southern United States to be named an All-America City five times, most recently in 2015.
Its Main Street program, Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association, was the winner of the national Main Street's Great American Main Street Award in 2020. The Tupelo micropolitian area contains Lee, Itawamba, and Pontotoc counties and had a population of 140,081 in 2017.
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