Bowmar Avenue Elementary School

Bowmar Avenue Elementary was built in 1939 by the Jackson firm Overstreet and Town, which brought International Modernist architecture to Mississippi between 1937 and 1941. It is one of the earliest and best-preserved examples of the style in the state, was paid for with federal Works Progress Administration money, and is a Mississippi Landmark. A. Hays Town, a partner in the firm, later opened his own office in Baton Rouge and became well known for his houses. The Vicksburg Warren School District sponsored the 2018 state marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 1.3 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 2.0 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 3.0 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.

More markers nearby

• Alpha Kappa Alpha National Presidents — steps away
• Marcus Bottom — 0.3 mi
• Magnolia High School — 0.4 mi
• Frank Crump, Jr. — 0.9 mi