Clinton

Clinton grew on cotton and a railroad. The Clinton-Vicksburg Railroad, incorporated in 1831, was the second oldest in the state, and one account says the town shipped 20,000 bales a year, more than any city between Vicksburg and Meridian. In 1875 Sarah Ann Dickey, a white educator from Ohio who had come to Mississippi to teach Black women and children, founded Mount Hermon Female Seminary, a Black college that closed in 1924. Dickey was at the September 1875 Clinton rally and wrote to President Grant describing the violence that followed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 6.6 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• Farish Street Historic District — 8.4 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 9.0 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 9.1 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.

More markers nearby

• Hillman College — steps away
• Mississippi College — 0.2 mi
• The Clinton Riot — 0.4 mi
• Clinton's Blues Legacy — 1.5 mi