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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295Y_alcorn-state-university-1871_MS.html
Oakland College managed to continue operation until 1861. In 1871 the buildings were purchased for $42,500 by the State in order that a school might be established for blacks. Oakland College reorganized as Chamberlain-Hunt Academy and relocated t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295P_the-chapel_MS.html
1840-51. Greek Revival. This structure, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the finest Greek Revival style remaining in Mississippi. The Chapel is in the familiar Greek temple form. Its two principal floors are raised abo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295O_oakland-college_MS.html
1830 - Oakland College was founded by Dr. Jeremiah Chamberlain.
Chamberlain envisioned Oakland as serving the 300,000 inhabitants
of Mississippi. Louisiana, and Arkansas. Representatives of three
Louisiana parishes and eight Mississippi countie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284P_the-original-campus_MS.html
In 1840, Dr. Jeremiah Chamberlain, founder and president of Oakland College, reported on progress to Governor McNutt as follows:"We have 250 acres of land... and subscriptions to above $100,000, near one-half of which is due in the form of a perma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM284O_oakland-memorial-chapel_MS.html
Construction on Oakland Memorial Chapel was begun in 1840 by Dr. Jeremiah Chamberlain, the college's founder and president. It was completed in 1851, two years after the death of Dr. Chamberlain. While this structure was consistently referred to a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27YG_old-port-gibson-to-rodney-road_MS.html
This road is the first established route from Port Gibson and Alcorn to Rodney, and was constructed in the early nineteenth century. Composed of loess soil, the old roadbed and roadside bluffs for the next 2.4 miles remain today much as they were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27YF_belles-lettres-building_MS.html
Ca. 1851. Neoclassic Revival. The origin of this structure is uncertain. It is generally assumed to be one of two buildings completed in 1851 for use by a campus literary society. Its architecture is more properly called Neoclassic Revival. It doe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27XH_alcorn-agricultural-and-mechanical-college_MS.html
Established May 13, 1871, as Alcorn Univ. of Miss on site of Oakland College. Hiram Revels, first president. Reorganized 1878 and Alcorn A.&M. Oldest land-grant college for Negroes in the United States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZYX_fort-cobun_Port-Gibson-MS.html
On a ledge 40 feet above the Mississippi, the Confederates in March, 1863 , laid out Fort Cobun. Protected by a parapet nearly 40 feet thick were four big guns manned by Company A, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery. The guns of Fort Cobun under comman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZYW_bethel-church_Port-Gibson-MS.html
The original congregation of the Bethel Presbyterian Church organized in 1826 under the direction of Dr. Jeremiah Chamberlain, constructed this building in the mid 1840s. On the interior, ornamentation is completely lacking. The use of pilasters o…