Archeologists tell us there was a house here sometime around 500 A.D. and that the pottery found in the mounds was made before 700 A.D. Likely, the population was continuous over centuries with customs being handed from generation to generation, . . . — — Map (db m87364) HM
Built in 1890 by the Hesdorffer brothers of
Canton, this building is the last 19th-century
structure in Madison's downtown commercial
district. Through much of the 20th century, It
was the center of Madison's social and civic life
and was used . . . — — Map (db m244430) HM
Built ca. 1840, this is the oldest surviving
structure in Madison, predating the arrival
of the railroad and the founding of the town
in 1856. John Curran, an Irish immigrant and
wagon maker, owned the property from 1839 to
1851. The house is . . . — — Map (db m244422) HM
The community of Madison was founded in
1856 following the arrival of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern Railroad. Originally
known as Madison Station, it was named for
President James Madison. In the late 1800s,
Madison was known as . . . — — Map (db m244442) HM
Erected in 1946, this all-steel, 50,000-gallon water tank supplied running water to Madison's residents until 1979. Built by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. of Birmingham, the tank drew water from a deep well on land deeded to the city by the . . . — — Map (db m244428) HM
Built in 1852, the Montgomery House began
as a simple dogtrot house. The property was
purchased later by Thomas Nicholson Jones
(1855-1920), who added an impressive facade,
doubling the size of the house. Jones became
the first president of the . . . — — Map (db m244419) HM
The Montgomery Memorial Cemetery was
established circa 1841 on property owned by
Lafayette F. Montgomery (1812-1907), a prominent
citizen and political figure. Also burled here are
Betty McArthur (1862-1945), an early Impressionist
and founding . . . — — Map (db m244443) HM
Completed in 1936 at a cost of $37.432, the
Madison-Ridgeland School gymnasium annex was
built with funding from the Public Works
Administration during the New Deal era. Designed
by the architectural firm of Overstreet & Town,
the gymnasium is . . . — — Map (db m244441) HM
Built ca. 1870, the “Strawberry Patch” House was the home of Dr. Haden E. McKay, who lived here until his death in 1898. Known locally as the “Strawberry King”, McKay, along with his brothers John and William T. McKay, grew strawberries and other . . . — — Map (db m205216) HM
At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, Great Britain gained control of the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River except for the New Orleans area. The northern boundary of West Florida was first established at 31° . . . — — Map (db m87366) HM
In 1940, the Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics built this airfield and hangars to train Army Air Corps cadets. First named Robins Field, it was renamed Augustine Field in the all of 1941. More than 3,000 pilots trained here on Boeing PT-17s and . . . — — Map (db m205215) HM
