Courthouse and Lawyers' Row Historic District

The landmark covers a square, but Clinton's story runs wider. The Marston House of about 1837 was a bank, and Henry Marston, its cashier and later owner and president, gave Bank Street its name. William Silliman opened Silliman Institute in 1852 to educate young women. In the Confederate cemetery lies John Rhea, a founder of the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad and president of the 1810 West Florida convention, with unmarked soldiers' graves along its western edge.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audubon State Historic Site — 18 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 20 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 22 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• Lawyers' Row — steps away
• Clinton Courthouse — steps away
• Centenary College's Main Academic Building — 12 mi
• Battle of Jackson, Station One — 12 mi