New Sight in Lincoln County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)

New Sight School

August 25, 2018

1. New Sight School Marker

Inscription. In 1921 the Confederate Grove, Garner, Clear Branch, and Mt. Zion community schools consolidated to create the Now Sight School, once located on this site. Established under the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, designed to promote vocational, agricultural, and domestic science education in public schools. The New Sight School opened with an enrollment of 248 students, eight teachers, and Mr. O.F. Grantham as the first principal. The New Sight School closed tn 1960.

Erected 2014 by Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Education.

Location. 31° 39.358′ N, 90° 26.821′ W. Marker is in New Sight, Mississippi, in Lincoln County. It is on Forest Trail NE east of New Sight Drive NE, on the left when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 629 Forest Trail NE, Brookhaven MS 39601, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southwest Mississippi and in Natchez Trace Corridor.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in

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the Deep South.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Copiah-Lincoln Agricultural High School (approx. 3.7 miles away); Wesson Hotel (approx. 4.3 miles away); Mississippi Mills (approx. 4½ miles away); Houston Stackhouse (approx. 4.7 miles away); Old Wesson Public School (approx. 4.7 miles away); Pearlhaven (approx. 4.8 miles away); Little Brother Montgomery (approx. 5.1 miles away); Horse & Mule Watering Trough (approx. 5.2 miles away).

August 25, 2018

2. New Sight School Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 26, 2018. It was originally submitted on August 26, 2018, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana. This page has been viewed 440 times since then and 48 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 26, 2018.