On U.S. 45 0.7 miles north of Hall Road, on the right when traveling north.
In 1865 Macon became the last center of Mississippi's wartime government, following its evacuation from Jackson and Meridian. A house on this site became the executive residence of Governor Charles Clark. — — Map (db m92652) HM
On Jefferson Street (State Highway 145) at East Green Street, on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Street.
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The roots of blues and gospel music run deep in the African American culture of the Black Prairie region. Among the performers born near Macon here in Noxubee County, Eddy Clearwater, Carey Bell, and Jesse Fortune went on to . . . — — Map (db m92636) HM
On North Wayne Street 0.1 miles north of Noxubee School Drive, on the right when traveling north.
The Calhoun Institute, a school for girls, was est. here in 1851 by W.R. Poindexter. From early 1864 until the end of the Civil War it was used for the state capitol. Now site of the Noxubee County High School. — — Map (db m92656) HM
On Jefferson Street (State Highway 145) 0.2 miles south of South Street, on the right when traveling south.
West 15 miles is the site which gave name to last treaty with the Choctaws, Sept. 7, 1830, whereby the remaining tribal lands in the state were opened to white settlement. — — Map (db m92655) HM
On Lawrence Street at West North Street, on the right when traveling south on Lawrence Street.
Organized June 20, 1835, with nine charter members. This building, dedicated Dec. 19, 1909, is the third to be occupied by this church. Basement of second church used as a military hospital, 1861-65. — — Map (db m140686) HM
On Jefferson Street (State Highway 145) at East Adams Street (State Highway 14), on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Street.
Noxubee County was formed on December 3, 1833. The first term of the county's circuit court was held in January 1834 in the south end of the Frith Hotel, a log cabin-style home owned by Joseph H. Frith. With Judge Thomas Sterling presiding and R.J. . . . — — Map (db m92658) HM
On North Jefferson Street (State Highway 145) north of East 8th Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1834, nine people met in a house north of the village of Macon to discuss forming a Methodist congregation. In November 1834, the Macon Methodist Episcopal Church became part of the Noxubee Circuit, which was then part of the Alabama Conference. . . . — — Map (db m178999) HM
On South Wayne Street at East 8th Street, on the left when traveling north on South Wayne Street.
Est. 1837. Enrolled into Tombecbee Presbytery, 1842. Site of original church at S.E. corner, block 7. Present site deeded to church 1889 by R.C. Patty; building erected 1890; burned 1941. Rebuilt 1947. — — Map (db m92657) HM
On Mississippi Route 490 0.8 miles south of Route 14, on the right when traveling south.
Constituted May 15, 1835. in a schoolhouse on Hashuqua Creek with fifteen members. Present building erected in 1855. Services held continually since organization. — — Map (db m140665) HM
On Jefferson Street at Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drive, on the right when traveling north on Jefferson Street.
To our
Confederate
Dead.
Names listed on monument
Wm. Franklin Wm. Cason James Goodwin
Ike Griffin Jasper Holmes Wm. Hurt
B.T. Tatum Franklin Rogers A. Rickey
Abe Ware J.O. Gavin Sam Connor
Joe Robbins J. Luttrell S. . . . — — Map (db m92669) WM
On Mississippi Route 14 0.5 miles east of Salem Road, on the left when traveling east.
Built in 1914, this structure is Noxubee County's most significant extant early twentieth century public school building. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1939. — — Map (db m140685) HM
On U.S. 45 at Buggs Ferry Road, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 45.
N W 3 mi. Church & cemetery date from 1835. Originally Cockrell Church. Renamed for
bishop Joshua Soule. Some of its preachers, achieved eminence in Methodism, some
members in affairs of state. — — Map (db m140687) HM
