This boulder is erected by the Mississippi
College Rifles Chapter U. D. C.
in grateful memory of the 104 men who went
out from this college as Company E; 18th
Mississippi Regiment, April 23, 1861.
J. W. Welborn, Capt., Cuddie . . . — — Map (db m90391) HM
Pioneer Baptist minister who, in 1824, settled in Hinds Co. and organ. Union Church in the Society Ridge Com. A founder of the Miss. Bapt. Conv. in 1836, he influenced that body to acquire Miss. Coll. in 1850. — — Map (db m89733) HM
On West Leake Street at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west on West Leake Street.
Charles Caldwell, Republican leader during Reconstruction, was assassinated outside Clinton's Store on the northeast corner of Leake and Jefferson Streets on December 30, 1875. Caldwell, a former slave, was a delegate to the 1868 State . . . — — Map (db m89731) HM
On Clinton Parkway at East Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Clinton Parkway.
Governor Walter Leake built his
home, Mount Salus, in 1825. The
Mount Salus post office was authorized
that year and renamed Clinton in 1828
to honor Governor Dewitt Clinton of New
York. In 1828-30 the state legislature
considered . . . — — Map (db m115383) HM
On East College Street 0.2 miles west of Fairmont Street, on the left when traveling west.
Established ca. 1800, the Clinton Cemetery is one of the oldest in central Mississippi. Buried here are families of pioneer settlers, ten college presidents, and sixty-three Confederate soldiers. — — Map (db m69598) HM
On Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 88.1), 1 mile north of Interstate 20, on the right when traveling north.
Like many of his generation, Mead came from the east seeking opportunity in the Mississippi Territory. He owned a tavern on the Old Trace near Natchez and held several political offices, including acting governor in 1806. During this time, he . . . — — Map (db m69679) HM
On East Leake Street east of East Street, on the right when traveling east.
Walter Hillman was President of the Central Female Institute from 1855 to 1887 and of Mississippi College from 1867 to 1873. During the Civil War he saved many Clintonians from starvation by requesting rations from General Sherman. When Charles . . . — — Map (db m103744) HM
On East College Street at Clinton Parkway, on the right when traveling north on East College Street.
Composed largely of residential
structures built ca. 1870-1940,
this district includes E.
College, E. Main, Landrum and
New Prospect Streets. Parts of
the district were included in
the 1829 town plan. Listed in
the National Register of . . . — — Map (db m115386) HM
On East Main Street west of Heights Drive, on the right when traveling west.
Composed largely of residential structures built ca. 1870-1940, this district includes E. College, E. Main, Landrum and New Prospect Streets. Parts of the district were included in the 1829 town plan. Listed in the National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m115389) HM
On East Leake Street east of East Street, on the right when traveling east.
Following the closure of the female department at Mississippi College in 1851, the Central Baptist Association founded the Central Female Institute on this site in 1853. The institute provided primary and secondary education, as well as a two-year . . . — — Map (db m103743) HM
On Northside Drive at Old Vicksburg Road, on the right when traveling east on Northside Drive.
Operated at junction of Natchez Trace & Old Vicksburg Rd. by Robert H. Bell (1783-1835) & his "yellow man Vincent," freed by Bell's will in 1835. Bell-Vincent Scholarship, Millsaps College, endowed with funds from the sale of this land, memorializes . . . — — Map (db m50873) HM
On West College Street at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling east on West College Street.
Founded 1826, is oldest of Mississippi senior colleges. Under Baptist control. Was first coeducational college to grant degree to a woman. Famed for producing many a leader in church and state. — — Map (db m89732) HM
On East College Street east of McLemore Drive, on the right when traveling east.
This stone marks the crossing of the Natchez Trace, pioneer highway of Mississippi Territory, blazed through the forest during the administration of Gov. W.C.C. Clairborne.
Over it marched the Tennessee troops to join Andrew Jackson in 1812. . . . — — Map (db m115391) HM
On East College Street 0.1 miles west of Fairmont Street, on the right when traveling west.
Walter Hillman and Consider Parish led a congregation of former slaves in forming Pleasant Green Baptist Church in 1870. The church, under Reverend Dunbar, met in the Mississippi College chapel before relocating to a lot east of the chapel. The . . . — — Map (db m148592) HM
On Jefferson Street at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Jefferson Street.
Tanglewood was originally built ca. 1845 on Norrell Road, then just south of Clinton, by Andrew and Nancy Thomas for their daughter Mary Jane and her husband, James A. Criddle. By 1876 Tanglewood had come into the ownership of Captain William Lewis . . . — — Map (db m89730) HM
On East College Street east of Landrum Street, on the left when traveling east.
Built ca. 1835, this Greek Revival house is one of the oldest in Hinds Co. U.S. Grant passed by enroute to Civil War siege of V'burg, 1863. This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m115290) HM
On Clinton Raymond Road 0.2 miles south of Interstate 20, on the right when traveling south.
On January 12, 1836, Isaac Caldwell, a former law partner of Senator George Poindexter, fought a duel with Samuel Gwin, a protégé of Andrew Jackson. The duel was the result of a lengthy political quarrel that began in 1830, when the senator blocked . . . — — Map (db m119217) HM
On September 4, 1875, Charles Caldwell, a
former slave and Republican state senator,
organized a political rally at “Moses
Hill." Firing erupted during the rally,
attended by more than 1,500 blacks and
about 75 whites, including some . . . — — Map (db m115338) HM
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