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.
Rankin County, Mississippi. Rankin County Courthouse in Brandon. Rankin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The western border of the county is formed by the Pearl River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 141,617, making it the fourth-most populous county in Mississippi. The county seat is Brandon. The county is named in honor of Christopher Rankin, a Mississippi Congressman who served from 1819 to 1826. Rankin County is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area