Everything about Tupelo Mississippi totally explained
Tupelo (IPA: [tu:pəlo]) is the largest city in and the
county seat of
Lee County,
Mississippi,
United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of
Mississippi, smaller than
Meridian, and larger than
Olive Branch. The Tupelo area — specifically the nearby village of
Blue Springs — was selected during the spring of 2007 as the site for
Toyota's eleventh U.S. automobile manufacturing plant. As of the
2000 United States Census, the city's population was 34,211. By 2006, the population was 35,930, with a
micropolitan area population of 131,953, encompassing Lee, Pontotoc and Itawamba counties. The city is perhaps best known as the birthplace of
Elvis Presley Situated in northeast Mississippi, the city lies between
Memphis, Tennessee, and
Birmingham, Alabama, along
U.S. Highway 78 — slated to become
Interstate 22 within a few years.
History
The town was originally named
Gum Pond prior to the
American Civil War, supposedly due to the high number of
tupelo trees, locally known as
blackgum, that grow in the area. The city still hosts the
Gumtree Arts Festival
each year. In the post-Civil War era, Tupelo became the northern
Mississippi site for the crossing of a
railroad, which brought industry to the town, establishing it as the center of
commerce in the northern part of the state. Once the town began to grow, Gum Pond took on the name Tupelo, naming the town after the small Civil War
battle that took place on the site. That site is now designated as
Tupelo National Battlefield. That
Battle of Tupelo was in turn named for the
tupelo trees of the area. Tupelo was incorporated in
1870 with a population of 618.
Tupelo made national history in
1934 as the first city in the United States to provide its citizens with electric power through the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 1935, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt visited this First TVA City.
Comcast Corporation, was founded in 1963 by Ralph J. Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Edward Rex and Julian A. Brodsky based on a recommendation from Warren "Pete" Musser, of Harrisburg,PA, who brought the deal to Ralph Roberts to buy his first cable system in Tupelo, Mississippi. The company was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the name Comcast Corporation.
Comcast, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest cable company[1] and the second largest Internet service provider in the United States. Comcast now serves a total of 24.1 million cable customers, 14.1 million digital cable customers, 12.4 million high-speed internet customers, and 3.5 million voice customers. It develops broadband cable networks and is also involved in television programming content. The company employs over 90,000 people and also has corporate offices in Houston, Detroit, and Denver.
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