On Lee Creek Road east of Cayce Road, on the right when traveling east.
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A recording artist, disc jockey, comedian, and ambassador for Memphis music, Rufus Thomas (1917 – 2001) was born here in Cayce. As a young man Thomas toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, and later worked in Memphis as an . . . — — Map (db m96779) HM
On Salem Avenue (State Highway 4) east of West Street, on the right when traveling east.
Airliewood, built in 1858 for William H. Coxe on a fifteen acre estate, is a gothic style villa. The massive iron gate and fence are attributed to Wood & Perot of Boston. At the invitation of Coxe, the house was used by Major General U.S. Grant as . . . — — Map (db m85131) HM
On West College Avenue 0.1 miles west of South Craft Street, on the left when traveling west.
At the original site of the Asbury Methodist Church, the Upper Mississippi conference was organized on February 5, 1891. Classes first held in the church led to the establishment of Rust College. — — Map (db m85132) HM
On Rust Avenue east of North Memphis Street (State Route 7), on the right when traveling east.
In 1964-65, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) came to Holly Springs, MS.
This monument is in honor and recognition of the students who came from across the country and joined with Rust College students and local citizens to register . . . — — Map (db m117499) HM
On East College Avenue at North Center Street, on the right when traveling west on East College Avenue.
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Although Delta blues often claims the spotlight, other styles of the blues were produced in other regions of Mississippi. In the greater Holly Springs area, musicians developed a "hill county" blues style characterized by few chord . . . — — Map (db m84875) HM
On Memphis Street at Van Dorn Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Memphis Street.
Ante-bellum cotton town and center of social and cultural life. Home of 13 generals of Confederacy. Grant's southern advance halted here by Van Dorn's raid, December, 1862. — — Map (db m121844) HM
On East College Street at South Market Street, on the right when traveling west on East College Street.
Born the eldest child to Elizabeth and James Wells, she grew up in Holly Springs, and attended Shaw University, now Rust College. She was a reformer who insisted on economic and political resistance to oppression. She became head of a household at . . . — — Map (db m136680) HM
On East Van Dorn Avenue (State Highway 178) at South Center Street, on the right when traveling east on East Van Dorn Avenue.
On November 7, 1862, Gen. John Pemberton reviewed his Confederate troops here. The next day, the army withdrew to a defensive position behind the Tallahatchie River. Union Gen. Grant's forces arrived on the 29th. After learning that Pemberton had . . . — — Map (db m85129) HM
On East Salem Avenue (State Highway 4) at Bonner Street, on the left when traveling east on East Salem Avenue.
Located approx. 400 yards north was the Jones-McElwain and Co. Iron Foundry, established 1859. In 1861, the firm was awarded a Confederate contract to produce rifles and muskets. Before any weapons were made, Holly Springs was threatened by Union . . . — — Map (db m85130) HM
On North Memphis Street (Mississippi Route 7) 0.2 miles north of Rust Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Estab. 1866 as Shaw Univ. for the education of freed slaves by Miss. Methodists and the Freedman's Aid Society. Renamed 1890 to honor Richard Sutton Rust, Methodist clergymen, educator and abolitionist. — — Map (db m116157) HM
On Rust Avenue east of North Memphis Street (State Route 7), on the right when traveling east.
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In 1960 Rust College students, under the leadership of President E. A. Smith, boycotted the segregated HollyTheater, a protest that in 1962 evolved into a Rust chapter of the NAACP. The chapter offices were installed by Medgar . . . — — Map (db m116163) HM
On Salem Avenue east of Bonner Street, on the left when traveling east.
Home of distinguished 19th century woman writer, who pioneered in dialect stories. Served as secretary and inspiration to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. — — Map (db m85126) HM
On East College Avenue at North Walthall Street, on the left when traveling east on East College Avenue.
Here prior to Civil War lived Edward Cary Walthall, statesman, lawyer, Confederate Brigadier General and United States Senator from 1885 to 1898. He is buried in this city. — — Map (db m84883) HM
On East Gholson Avenue at South Memphis Street, on the right when traveling west on East Gholson Avenue.
Residence of W.J.L. Holland, who gave his quarters and his life during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. The benevolent Holland died while chairman of the relief committee. — — Map (db m85133) HM
On Mississippi Route 7 1.5 miles south of Waterford Mountain Road, on the right when traveling south.
In November 1862, Col. Albert Lee's cavalry and Gen. Charles Hamilton's infantry division led the Union advance down the Mississipi Central R.R. Here, at Lumpkin's Mill, Lee's men met Col. William H. Jackson's Confederate cavalry. After a spirited . . . — — Map (db m102632) HM
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