Delta Gamma Fraternity

The word sorority had not yet been coined in December 1873, so the young women who began Delta Gamma at the Lewis School called their group a fraternity. The founders were Mary Comfort Leonard, Eva Webb Dodd and Anna Boyd Ellington. The first badge was a plain H for Hope before the anchor replaced it. Early chapters grew up in Southern women's colleges, and George Banta, a Phi Delta Theta man, helped carry the order north and east, becoming its only male initiate. Delta Gamma was one of seven charter members of the National Panhellenic Conference in 1891.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oxford Square — 0.2 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 — 0.4 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.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 0.8 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.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 16 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

• Theora Hamblett House — steps away
• St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal — steps away
• Burns "Belfry" Church — steps away
• Freedmen Town — 0.2 mi