Como

During World War II the Army ran a prisoner of war camp near Como, built by the Corps of Engineers in 1942 and 1943 for about 3,900 men. German Afrika Korps and Italian prisoners began arriving in September and October 1943. Friction between the Germans and the other nationalities led the Army to make it a German camp, sending the rest elsewhere. The camp closed in 1946, and its site is private land. The county's federal ties in those years also brought Sardis Lake, a flood-control reservoir that proved the more lasting change.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 11 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.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 25 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.
• Rowan Oak — 26 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.
• Oxford Square — 26 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.

More markers nearby

• Fred McDowell — steps away
• Otha Turner — steps away
• Sardis — 5.2 mi
• Jessie Mae Hemphill — 5.9 mi