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• Author: Gibson, Richard R.
• Position: THEN & NOW - Brief article

The walls of the main vestibule of the Mississippi Capitol are covered with marble--Black Belgian and blue Vermont. The rotunda contains Italian white marble and jet black marble from New York. There are 11 kinds of marble in Mississippi's Capitol, dubbed the "million dollar Capitol." Taxpayers didn't even have to pay for its construction--The Illinois Central Railroad did. It owed...