Ackerman

Ackerman is named for William K. Ackerman, president of the Illinois Central Railroad from 1877 to 1883. The town stands southeast of the present-day center of Choctaw County, near the headwaters of the Yockanookany River, a tributary of the Pearl River. Highway 15 runs through it, north to Mathiston and south to Louisville, and Highway 12 crosses its northwest corner, leading northeast to Starkville and southwest to Kosciusko. Highway 9 branches north from Highway 12 there toward Eupora, 17 miles away.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 22 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.
• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 30 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Site — 32 mi
  A National Historic Landmark in rural Noxubee County where the Choctaw Nation signed away its last Mississippi land on September 27, 1830.

More markers nearby

• Governor J.P. Coleman — 0.3 mi
• Governor Ray Mabus — 0.3 mi
• Choctaw County Blues — 7.2 mi
• Legion Lodge — 13 mi