A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America.he Rungus of Sabah in north Borneo build a type of longhouse with rather short stilts, the house raised three to five feet of the ground, and walls sloped outwards. Many place names in Sarawak have Long in their name and most of these are or once were longhouses.
Thaxton, Mississippi. Thaxton is a town in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The population was 643 at the 2010 census. There is a town of the same name in Virginia (see Thaxton, Virginia) Contents.
Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 927,644. It is the state's largest county both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis, the most populous city in Tennessee. The county was named for Governor Isaac Shelby (1750â1826) of Kentucky. Shelby County is part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River. Within the Mississippi Delta, the county developed as a center of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, and cotton continued as an important commodity crop well into the 20th century.