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Welcome to Aberdeen, Mississippi!
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Aberdeen is a great place . . .
great for business, great for living . .
. and great for retiring. Approximately
equidistant from both Memphis and
Birmingham, Aberdeen is
situated on the banks of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, which
links the Port of Mobile, Alabama to the
remainder of the United States. Shipping
facilities
are available to business and industry at the Port of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is the county seat of Monroe County, and is
also the seat of U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of Mississippi,
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern
District of Mississippi, Monroe County
Circuit Court and Monroe County Chancery
Court.
Aberdeen is a major destination for sportsmen from
throughout the region who fi
sh the
crappie and catfish-laden waters of the
Aberdeen and Columbus lakes. Blue Bluff
Campground on the Tenn-Tom Waterway at
Aberdeen is one of the finest such
facilities on the entire waterway
system.
The Aberdeen public school system includes 140
classrooms on six campuses covering 116
acres. There is a vocational educational
complex, six libraries and a media
center with 35,000 books, DVDs and audio
and video tapes, three gymnasiums, and
an 1800 seat multi-sportsplex. Staff and
faculty total approximately 350, while
student enrollment is 1450.
Aberdeen is home
to industry - Georgia Gulf Chemicals &
Vinyls, LLC, Holley
Performance
Products, Nanacor, Tenn-Tom Pallet,
Comer Packing Company, Unimin and Monroe
Kut.
Pioneer Community Hospital of Aberdeen provides acute
care and 24-hour emergency service with
a guaranteed maximum waiting time of
fifteen minutes. Pioneer offers physical
therapy and sports medicine, geriatric
psychiatry, outpatient behavioral health
for those 18 years of age and older, a
sleep center for intensive sleep
studies, full service resporatory
therapy and laboratory, general surgery,
assisted living, independent living and
an outpatient specialty physicians
facility.
Blue Bluff Recreation Area, located on the Aberdeen Lake section of the
Tenn-Tom Waterway, provides fishing,
boating, hunting and camping on 92 full
hook-up
camp sites. Facilities in the
recreation area include boat ramps,
paved parking lots, covered pavilions,
picnic tables, white sand beaches,
swimming area, and playgrounds.
Homes and buildings in Aberdeen provide examples of
Green Revival, Spanish, Carpenter
Gothic, Gothic Revival, Italianate,
Second Empire, Queen Anne, Dutch
Colonial, Swiss Chateau, Tudor,
Japaneseque, and Art Deco styles.
Aberdeen is home to the annual Bukka White Blues
Festival, the name of which
honors the
late Booker T. (Bukka) White of
Aberdeen, the legendary blues
artist who was a first cousin to B.B.
King. A Mississippi Blues Trail
marker is dedicated to Bukka White as
well as several other well known Blues
artists who called Aberdeen home.
Aberdeen opens its antebellum and Victorian homes to the
public each Spring during the
Aberdeen Pilgrimage. Daily
tours are available year-round at
The Magnolias, a stately mansion
built in 1850. This beautiful antebellum
house was purchased by native son
Clarence Day of Memphis and deeded to
the City of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is governed by a Mayor and five-member Board of
Aldermen. The population is
approximately 6,500 (2000 Census).
Aberdeen is
approximately 230
feet above sea level,
has a mean annual temperature of 62
degrees F, and an average rainfall of 55
inches.
Virtually all denominations are represented among the more than 40
churches located in and around
Aberdeen, as well as a number
of non-denominational congregations.
Aberdeen is served by two railroads, a national bus
line, a river port and highway U.S. 45
(four-lane) and Mississippi 8 and 25.
There are two regional airports, both
with airline service (Tupelo and Golden
Triangle), each of which is a 40-minute
drive, along with the Monroe County
Airport, which serves general aviation. |
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