Farr Mercantile Company

Farr Mercantile reads like a small-town storefront and shows its changes. The 1890 brick building has three bays, a recessed central entrance with double doors and a big transom, and segmental brick arches over every opening, with corbelled brick at the roofline. A wood-post porch once shaded the second story; R.B. Price took it down when it rotted, and a metal overhang replaced it. By 1985 the building held an antique shop, and its National Register form named suburban growth spreading north from Jackson as the main threat.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 2.6 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 — 4.8 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 — 10 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 — 12 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

• John Curran House — steps away
• Old School Gymnasium — steps away
• Montgomery House — steps away
• Dorroh Street Historic District — 0.3 mi