On Choctaw Road, 5 miles west of Shucktown Road, on the left when traveling west.
A pioneer physician in E. Franklin Co., Dr. Rodriguez practiced here, 1850-1879. Born in Tepian, Cuba, of Castilian Spanish parents. Immigrated to U.S. and studied medicine at Natchez. Married Rebecca Lazarus, 1851. — — Map (db m117339) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 184) east of Oldenburg Road, on the left when traveling east.
In May 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles
Eddie Moore, two African American teenagers,
became the first victims of Freedom Summer
when they were kidnapped by members of the
KKK. Taken into the Homochitto National Forest
and tortured, they . . . — — Map (db m193438) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 184), on the right when traveling west.
Kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan near this spot on May 2, 1964. Dee and Moore were later beaten, attached to iron weights, and drowned in the old Mississippi River. Their partial remains were first discovered on July 12,& 13 1964. — — Map (db m192868) HM
On Main Street (Route 184) east of Oak Street, on the right when traveling east.
In 1959, Wade H. Creekmore, Sr. founded several
rural telephone companies in Mississippi, including
Delta Telephone in Louise and the Franklin Telephone
Company in Meadville. From these rural carriers,
sons Wade H. Creekmore, Jr. and Jimmy . . . — — Map (db m226758) HM