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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26BP_christ-episcopal-church_Vicksburg-MS.html
Founded 1828. Nave and tower constructed 1839-43. Cornerstone laid by Bishop Leonidas Polk. Despite the bombardment, the Rev. W.W. Lord conducted daily services here during the Siege of Vicksburg.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26CR_walthall-county-training-school_Tylertown-MS.html
The Walthall County Training School had its beginning in the 1870s when Isaac Ginn began to teach the local African American children to read and write in a small, one room, split-log cabin structure. Using Rosenwald Foundation funds this structure was buil…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26R4_myrtle_Myrtle-MS.html
Established as Candy Hill in 1857, the town's name was changed after the Civil War when it applied for a postal stop. The town moved in 1886 when the construction of the Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad bypassed the original settlement by two m…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26R5_rust-college_Holly-Springs-MS.html
Estab. 1866 as Shaw Univ. for the education of freed slaves by Miss. Methodists and the Freedman's Aid Society. Renamed 1890 to honor Richard Sutton Rust, Methodist clergymen, educator and abolitionist.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM26T4_mississippi-normal-institute_Blue-Springs-MS.html
Founded in 1889 by Jasper Davis, the
Mississippi Normal Institute opened
on September 1, 1890, east of this site,
with an initial enrollment of 75 students
that gradually increased throughout the
1890s. At its height, the school boasted
an enrol…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28QF_the-clinton-duel_Clinton-MS.html
On January 12, 1836, Isaac Caldwell, a former law partner of Senator George Poindexter, fought a duel with Samuel Gwin, a protégé of Andrew Jackson. The duel was the result of a lengthy political quarrel that began in 1830, when the senator bl…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29XO_tchula_Tchula-MS.html
Settled by Charles Land, 1826. Early settlers came by Rockport Road, built by Indians from Tchula Lake to Natchez Trace. Town was trade & shipping center for planters of this area.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29Z7_steamboat-natchez_Belzoni-MS.html
On March 13, 1863, near this site, the NATCHEZ burned and sank in the Yazoo. Converted into a Confederate gunboat and armored with cotton bales, the vessel had been taken into the Yazoo to avoid capture.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29Z9_tinsley-oil-field_Bentonia-MS.html
Discovered 5 miles west of here on Sept. 5, 1939, Tinsley was the first oil field east of the Mississippi River in the Gulf Coast region. During the first 50 years, 220,000,000 barrels of oil were produced.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29ZN_belmont-plantation_Greenville-MS.html
Belmont, one of the few antebellum houses remaining in the Ms. Delta, was built ca, 1857 for W.W. Worthington. Federal troops plundered 1863. Belmont Hunting Lodge founded 1946 by Gov. Dennis Murphree.