Church Hill

The community took its name from Christ Church, and the third building on the hill, finished in 1858, shows what its planters could pay for. It has one of the few hammer-beam roofs in Mississippi, with massive beams stained and false-grained, and three of the workmen signed their graining before it dried. Across the intersection stood Wagner's Store, which closed in 1998 with its original counters; its building dates from about 1855 to 1880. Church Hill was a community of cotton planters and the people they enslaved, each plantation a clearing in the woods.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Locust — 3.5 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.
• Emerald Mound — 5.5 mi
  The second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the country, beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, built by ancestors of the Natchez and kept from climbing at the request of tribes.
• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 12 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Forks of the Road — 14 mi
  The 1832-1863 slave market a mile east of downtown Natchez, the second busiest in the Deep South, now a Natchez National Historical Park site with exhibit panels.

More markers nearby

• Springfield — 3.8 mi
• Old Greenville — 6.1 mi
• Salem Church, Cole's Creek — 7.2 mi
• Washington — 10 mi