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Article: Pickwick Pines Marina expected to draw more tourists.
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 15, 2005
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TISHOMINGO COUNTY -- A recent study performed by the Mississippi Development Authority found that more than $7 million was spent by tourists in Tishomingo County in 2004, and that 150 county jobs are tourism related. The study reported that $2.8 million was spent on tourism-related construction last year in the county.
All those numbers will almost certainly be on the rise as one of the northeast county's premier tourist draws, Pickwick Lake, is getting a new, multi-million-dollar marina complex, a project from the same company that developed nearby Pickwick Pines Resort.
"The new development will have the same tasteful design and construction that we ...