Dorroh Street Historic District

Three Queen Anne houses on Dorroh Street sheltered people who served the farmers around Madison. James F. Dorroh, a rural mail carrier in the early twentieth century, lived at number 103 and wrote verse; his poems first appeared in the Christian Observer of Louisville in 1899, when he was twenty-seven. His brother, a physician, is said by the present owners to have lived at number 105. Joseph Harrell, who bought number 115 in 1907, managed the Farr Mercantile Company, the town's general store. The row reflects the modest prosperity that reached Madison around the turn of the century.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 2.3 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 4.6 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 9.9 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 11 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

• Old School Gymnasium — 0.2 mi
• Farr Mercantile Company — 0.3 mi
• John Curran House — 0.3 mi
• Montgomery House — 0.4 mi