B.S. Ricks Memorial Library

Yazoo City's library has a marble foyer with a gold-leaf ceiling and a stained glass skylight. The building opened in 1901 and was dedicated on January 1, 1902, to a design by the architect Alfred Zucker. It was the first Yazoo County property placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the first public library on the Register in Mississippi. It is described locally as the oldest library in Mississippi, and it houses the state's second oldest library association, which began in 1838 as a membership library.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — steps away
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 15 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 22 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• Bank of Yazoo City — steps away
• Yazoo County Courthouse — steps away
• Yazoo Expedition — 0.2 mi
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — 0.3 mi