Carver Central High School

Carver Central opened in February 1955 under principal James R. Todd, a Tuskegee graduate who had studied under George Washington Carver and served three years in the Army's 92nd Infantry Division in World War II. Fourteen teachers faced about 500 students. By 1956 state surveyors found the school housing twice as many children as it was built for. In fall 1958 it became Covington County's only Black high school, absorbing Hopewell, Lincoln and Seminary. Buses from Mt. Olive ran late on unpaved roads, so Todd scheduled those students for library study first period.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prentiss Institute — 18 mi
  A school for Black Mississippians founded in 1907 in a former plantation house, with a restored 1926 Rosenwald building that now holds a museum.
• Amos Deason House — 22 mi
  A Greek Revival house in Ellisville where a Confederate major was shot in 1863, tied to the history of the Free State of Jones.
• Lauren Rogers Museum of Art — 26 mi
  Mississippi's oldest art museum, a 1923 memorial to a timber heir in Laurel, with a major Native American basket collection and no admission fee since it opened.
• Longleaf Trace — 26 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

• Courthouse Square at Williamsburg — 3.3 mi
• John Crowe Ransom — 15 mi
• Ellisville State School — 21 mi
• Lynching of John Hartfield — 22 mi