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Starkville Starkville is a city in and the
county seat of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States.
The population was
21,869 at the 2000 census. The campus of Mississippi State
University is located adjacent to the
east of Starkville. As of the fall of 2008, MSU is the state of Mississippi's
largest university with 18,601 undergraduates, more than 4,000 graduate
students, and more than 1,300 staff. The university is also the largest employer
of Starkville and dominates the city's economy. Students have created a ready
audience for the Magnolia Film Festival. Held every February, it is the oldest
film festival in the state. Other major events held in Starkville and heavily
supported by the MSU Student Body are the Dudy Gras Parade, Cotton District Arts
Festival, Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival, Old Main Music Festival, Indian
Mound Music and Art Festival, Ragtime Music Festival, and Bulldog
Bash. On March 21, 2006,
Starkville became the first city in Mississippi to adopt a smoking ban for
indoor public places, including restaurants and bars. This ordinance went into
effect on May 20, 2006. Johnny Cash was arrested for public drunkenness (though he
described it as being picked up for picking flowers) in Starkville and held
overnight at the city jail on May 11, 1965, which was the inspiration for his
song "Starkville City Jail": The song appears on the
album At San Quentin. Local oral tradition has
it that he finished a gig at what is now the Dave's Darkhorse Tavern, and
then walked a block west to the northwest corner of Lee Boulevard (now Martin Luther King,
Jr. Blvd.) and Montgomery Street, where
he helped himself to the flower bed at the front of the
house. Each year the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin'
Festival is held in Starkville, the city
where Cash had been arrested over forty years earlier. The festival, where he
was offered a symbolic posthumous pardon, honors Cash's life and music.[10] The festival was started by Robbie Ward, who urged the town to hold it annually based on the premise
that: "Johnny Cash was arrested in seven places, but he only wrote a song about
one of those places."[11] Performers at the festival have included Rosanne Cash, Carlene Carter, Jimmy
Tittle, Marty Stuart, Billy Joe Shaver and Joanne Cash. Marshall Grant, a founding member of the Tennessee Three, helps organize the
event. Located on the MSU campus,
the Cullis and Gladys Wade Clock
Museum boasts an extensive
collection of mostly American clocks and watches dating as far back as the early
1700s. The collection of over 400 clocks is the only one of its size in the
region. Starkville boasts over
eighty houses of worship, accommodating almost all religious traditions, largely
due to the presence of Mississippi State University, which attracts people with
a diverse range of nationalities. As of October 2007, approximately half (49.74%) of people in Starkville claim a religious
affiliation, with the plurality (41.59% ) self-identifying as Protestant. Starkville has moderate percentages of Baptist (25%) and Methodist (11%) adherents and small percentages of Catholic, Hindu, Mormon, and Islamic adherents as well. Income & Housing Costs Numbers: Estimated median household income in 2008: $26,707 (it
was $22,590 in 2000)
Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Starkville: 92.6 (less
than average, U.S. average is 100) In-Depth Facts and Figures as
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