College Church

The congregation began in January 1835 as Neriah Church in the home of Alexander Shaw, an early Scots-Irish settler, then became Ebenezer before taking its present name in 1841 from North Mississippi College. In 1842 members paid $400 for 23 acres. Bricks for the sanctuary were fired on the site under Francis Timmons, and the building, finished in 1846, cost about $2,800. The pulpit, pews and pew gates were original furnishings. Unmarked Union soldiers' graves lie in the churchyard, and fire heavily damaged the sanctuary in August 2022.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 4.4 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Oxford Square — 4.8 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Rowan Oak — 5.0 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 13 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• Documenting the Blues — 4.4 mi
• "Dead House" — 4.4 mi
• Barnard Observatory — 4.4 mi
• Ventress Hall — 4.4 mi