On North Court Street at West Court Street, on the right when traveling east on North Court Street.
In August 1955 the body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago, was found in the Tallahatchie River. On September 23, in a five day trial held in this courthouse, an all-white jury acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, . . . — — Map (db m89870) HM
On U.S. 49E at Old Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 49E.
Org. Dec. 23, 1833, after Third Choctaw Cession. Name means "River of the Rock." Tillatoba first county seat. Three adjacent counties contain part of original county. County seats are Charleston and Sumner. — — Map (db m89748) HM
On North Court Street at East Court Street, on the right when traveling east on North Court Street.
Front
1861–1865
Our Heroes
Rear
"For truth dies
not and by her
light they raise
the flag whose
starry folds have
never trailed;
and by the low
tents of the
deathless deed
they left the . . . — — Map (db m90268) WM