Edmund Scarborough and John Scott

Scarborough's first public building was a church. In 1866 he and his brother-in-law, Jordan Weatherby, cut logs in the woods, sawed boards to cover the roof, bought the nails and raised a crude building in Durant for the county's first Black Methodists. He had never attended school, a contemporary wrote, yet he had taught himself enough to startle a critic. He sat in the legislature, then served as a church elder and baptized some five hundred people. Born enslaved, he later owned several town lots.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 25 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Triangle Cultural Center — 26 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 29 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

More markers nearby

• O.E.S. Birthplace — 5.6 mi
• Goodman School — 6.3 mi
• Casey Jones — 6.4 mi
• Elmore James — 8.5 mi