Anonymous ID: d713b4 Aug. 17, 2018, 2:27 p.m. No.2647907   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7913

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The city has developed on seven hills with the rivers running between them, a feature that inspired the early European-American settlers to name it for Rome, the longtime capital of Italy. It developed in the antebellum period as a market and trading city due to its advantageous location on the rivers, by which it sent the rich regional cotton commodity crop downriver to markets on the Gulf Coast and export overseas.

Anonymous ID: d713b4 Aug. 17, 2018, 2:28 p.m. No.2647927   🗄️.is đź”—kun

In the late 1920s a United States company built a rayon plant in a joint project with an Italian company. This project and the American city of Rome were honored by Italy in 1929, when its dictator Benito Mussolini sent a replica of the statue of Romulus and Remus nursing from a mother wolf, a symbol of the founding myth of the original Rome.