Centenary College

Mississippi Methodists chartered Centenary in 1839, first at Clinton and then at Brandon Springs. In 1845 the college bought the facilities of the College of Louisiana at Jackson, Louisiana, after that school lost state support, and in 1846 trustees renamed it Centenary College of Louisiana. A faculty minute of October 7, 1861, records that the students had all gone to war and the college was suspended. Both Confederate and Union troops later occupied the buildings. The Jackson campus is now Centenary State Historic Site, and the college itself lives on in Shreveport.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roosevelt State Park — 11 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps state park on 150-acre Shadow Lake beside Bienville National Forest, with rustic cabins the CCC built between 1935 and 1940.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 18 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 18 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 19 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.

More markers nearby

• Ruben Lacy — 3.8 mi
• Shiloh Methodist Campground — 5.0 mi
• Rankin County Courthouses — 7.6 mi
• Town Square — 7.6 mi