Port Gibson City Hall. . Built in 1838 by Presbyterians to house Port Gibson Academy . Methodists assumed ownership and the Academy was chartered as Port Gibson Collegiate Academy in 1854, becoming Port Gibson Female College in 1881. The school closed in …
Mary B. Thistlethwaite Birdsall Home. "Lauramoore". A premier suffragist and advocate of women's rights, Mary B. Thistlethwaite Birdsall was the women's editor of the Indiana Farmer and in 1855 became editor and proprietor of the "Lily",…