Amite Female Seminary

In the spring of 1863 Colonel Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry burned most of the Amite Female Seminary, which had thirteen pianos. One small building was spared by a chance reunion. The school's music director, the Rev. Milton Shirk, turned out to be a New York classmate of the Union commander, who had been about to order it torched, and the instruments were carried out first. Grierson himself had been a music teacher. The two-story, two-room building survives and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Homochitto National Forest — 21 mi
  A 191,839-acre national forest in seven southwest Mississippi counties, replanted by the Civilian Conservation Corps, with Clear Springs and the 1,075-acre Okhissa Lake.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Monument — steps away
• Amite County Courthouse — 0.3 mi
• Liberty — 0.3 mi
• Europe Bates School — 9.2 mi