Article: Madison County: more rural than most imagine.

Madison County: more rural than most imagine

Quick. Think Madison County. What comes to mind? County Line Road, Northpark Mall? Northbay? The reservoir?

Why not cattle, hogs, cotton, or soybeans?

While the southern part of Madison County is busy developing into a booming urban area, much of the county remains rural with life centered around small-town life in Canton, the county seat, or Flora, tucked off on Hwy. 49 in the southwestern corner of the county.

"I think because of the press coverage of Madison and Ridgeland, people forget how rural Madison County is," said Jan Zeppelin, executive director of the Madison County Chamber of ...

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