Chamberlain-Hunt Academy

Two men gave the school its name. Jeremiah Chamberlain (1794-1851) founded Oakland College at Lorman in 1830. David Hunt (1779-1861), a planter and benefactor, left a fortune built on slavery; his family is reported to have held 1,700 enslaved people. When the state paid $40,000 for the Oakland campus to create Alcorn A&M, that money and donations helped reopen the school at Port Gibson in 1879. Military discipline arrived in 1915, girls were admitted in 1971, and the school was sold in 2014.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Windsor Ruins — 8.4 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 10 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Lake Bruin State Park — 13 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Mount Locust — 22 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.

More markers nearby

• Bruinsburg — 0.9 mi
• Battle of Port Gibson — 0.9 mi
• The Bernheimer Complex — 1.0 mi
• Port Gibson — 1.0 mi