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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XPX_batesville-mounds-historical_Batesville-MS.html
Seven mounds were originally recorded at the Batesville site. Of these, two remain intact. Mound B is a rectangular platform mound nine feet high; Mound C is a conical and stands 20 feet high. Mounds A and D have been greatly reduced by plowing bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQ3_bates-house_Batesville-MS.html
This timber framed Greek Revival-style house, built in the mid-1850s, was constructed from hand-hewn lumber and connected with wooden pegs. The Bates House was the home of Rev. James Wesley Bates, a Methodist minister and railroad Conductor, for w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQ1_dr-king-visits-batesville_Batesville-MS.html
On Tuesday, March 19, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a number of his aides came to Batesville to enlist participants in a planned Washington camp-in. While in Batesville, Dr. King spoke at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church to explain how th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPZ_st-stephens-episcopal-church_Batesville-MS.html
Built in 1895 by Andrew Johnson, St. Stephens was used as a church until the late 1930s and was deconsecrated after 1940. Since then, the building has housed the American Legion Post #118, the city library, and a voting precinct and served as a me…