On County Highway 700 south of County Highway 725A, on the left when traveling north.
N.E. 3 mi. Organized by Rev. Dan. McKay, 1842. Rev. G. B. Waldrop, Benj. Collins, & Nat. Harbin were first officers. Here M. P. Lowrey was pastor while drafting plans for Blue Mt. College. — — Map (db m171645) HM
On County Highway 700, 0.4 miles north of County Highway 725, on the left when traveling north.
First organized in the 1930s in a small one~room frame building that was replaced with this four~room schoolhouse in 1948. The Antioch Colored School served the African American children of the Orizaba community and consolidated the Ball Nob, Adkins . . . — — Map (db m171647) HM
On Hickory Street at 5th Street, in the median on Hickory Street.
Founded by Gen. M.P. Lowrey in 1873. Named for hill ½ mi. N.W. of this spot. In 1918 Lowrey and Berry families gave college properties to state Baptist Convention. — — Map (db m171642) HM
On County Road 700, 0.4 miles north of County Road 725, on the left when traveling north. Reported unreadable.
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In October 1964 the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church was destroyed by fire after a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party rally there led by Fannie Lou Hamer. On December 22 church members and other volunteers, along with Oberlin . . . — — Map (db m171654) HM
On North Guyton Blvd (State Highway 15) south of East Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
After losing her brother, a doctor, in WWI, Jessie Mauney was inspired to become a doctor. Despite gender discrimination, she persisted and earned a medical degree from Tulane Medical School, practicing from 1927 until 1985. Her clinic was in her . . . — — Map (db m171643) HM
On County Highway 804, 0.8 miles east of County Highway 800, on the right when traveling east.
Organized 1850. Originally located near Old Blue Mountain Cemetery and moved here to the Deentown community in 1885. In the early 1900s and in 1975, the church was destroyed by tornadoes. The first pastor was Rev. Allen Godwin. Mark Lowery, former . . . — — Map (db m171659) HM
On 5th Street at West Main Street, on the left when traveling north on 5th Street.
In 1936, Dr. Charles D. Johnson established a regional festival to foster the exchange of ideas between local amateur and professional writers. Dr. Johnson invited English professors at colleges and universities in Mississippi, Louisiana and . . . — — Map (db m171688) HM
