Bonhomie

What survives of Bonhomie is a handful of yellow-pine frame buildings: a Craftsman office with a wraparound porch, where workers waited for pay passed through a small window; a commissary with a full-width porch; one bungalow built for skilled white workers; and a Methodist church moved to the site. The housing for Black workers, the log pond, the drying kiln and the railroad shop are gone. Molpus Timberlands bought the property in 2000, and architect Tom Howorth's renovation won an Honor Award from the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.2 mi
  Hattiesburg's "Civil Rights Church," a Freedom School site in 1964 where Pete Seeger taught music and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke weeks before his death.
• Hub City Historic District — 3.0 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 3.0 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.
• Longleaf Trace — 3.2 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.

More markers nearby

• William Carey College — 0.9 mi
• John L. Sullivan — 0.9 mi
• Pinehills Neighborhood — 1.3 mi
• Hi-Hat Club — 2.5 mi