Oldest organized Baptist Church in Jefferson Davis County. Organized in 1818. First pastor, Norvell Robertson, served for 40 years. — — Map (db m173376) HM
Jonas E. and Bertha L. Johnson founded the Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute In 1907. Patterned after the Tuskegee Institute, where Mrs. Johnson (1882-1971) studied under Booker T. Washington, it was the only high school for African . . . — — Map (db m276596) HM
Tobias Magee, a veteran of the War of 1812, came to Mississippi ca. 1815, where he and his wife, Nancy Stevens Magee, reared their seventeen children. By 1841 Magee had purchased over eighty acres of land in this area and began to raise cotton and . . . — — Map (db m173374) HM
