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Seminary is still a very small town, with only a handful of businesses, including stores, two banks, two doctor's offices, a pharmacy, an art studio, a hardware store, a barber shop, and one restaurant. The rural area around
Seminary, however, is growing significantly. The population of the area,
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cut, the boom continued on to the next community. In the late 1800s, the residents petitioned the state of
Mississippi to incorporate into a municipality, and the charter was granted in 1899. The newborn town's citizens chose the name "Seminary" to keep alive the memory of the Zion Seminary.
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sympathizers, but it is not clear if this is true. The seminary was in operation until it burned again in 1890. The site of the Zion
Seminary was then used to build Seminary Attendance Center; the school still sits today upon this location in the center of town.
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Seminary and the rural, unincorporated communities of Okahay, Eminence, Sanford, Lux, Foxtrot, Ora, Lone Star, and Richmond, grew by more than 10% between the 2000 and 2010 censuses
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