On State Highway 37 just north of State Highway 80, on the right when traveling north.
Center Ridge School, established in the late 19th century, was located at this site. A white, framed building, the school served the Center Ridge community until 1956, when it was consolidated with a nearby school. The Unity United Methodist Church, . . . — — Map (db m57557) HM
On Sylvarena Avenue at Main Street (State Highway 35), on the right when traveling east on Sylvarena Avenue.
Built ca. 1845, the hotel once located on this site was among the first public buildings in Raleigh. During the Civil War, it was used as headquarters for Col. Robert Lowry, future governor of Mississippi. Political figures, including Jefferson . . . — — Map (db m173380) HM
On Main Street (State Highway 35) at Court House Square, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
Built in 1913, the Smith County Courthouse was designed by the Weathers-Foley Company of Memphis in the Neo-Classical Style. Cost of construction was $50.000. The present structure replaced an earlier courthouse on this site, built in 1892, which . . . — — Map (db m173379) HM
A noted poet, editor, and educator, John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) was one of a group of southern agrarian poets known as the Fugitives. Ransom's first teaching position, at age 17, was at Taylorsville High School (1905-1906). He later became a . . . — — Map (db m59303) HM
On Eureka Street west of Norris Street, on the left when traveling west.
Constructed in 1901, this rectangular wood-frame building served as the Taylorsville Signal newspaper office until the late 1960s. Hattie and Marie Watkins took over the newspaper in 1930 after the death of their father, James Thomas Watkins, . . . — — Map (db m126796) HM