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.
Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. Brandon is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prior to the arrival of white American settlers, the site of modern-day Brandon was a focal point of local Native American activities.