First Presbyterian Church

The church came from a school for Choctaw children. Mayhew Mission was founded in 1818 by Presbyterians from Massachusetts under Cyrus Kingsbury to Christianize and educate the Choctaw. After the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek its population fell, as the Choctaw were forced to leave on the Trail of Tears. The mission's original town site, near Muldrow, was abandoned in the early 1850s when the community moved to the new railroad as Mayhew Station, and only a cemetery marks the old site.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 13 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 14 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Waverley Mansion — 19 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 22 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.

More markers nearby

• Starkville — steps away
• Johnny Cash "Starkville City Jail" — steps away
• Oktibbeha County Blues — 0.4 mi
• Grierson's Raid — 0.9 mi