Forrest County Agricultural High School

Mississippi once had three independent agricultural high schools, each answering to its own school board. Hinds County's closed in 2014, and Coahoma's was turned into an early-college school. Forrest County's is the one still open as a public high school for grades nine through twelve, and it still runs its own farm and ranch. Its football team won its first South State championship and the 4-A state title in 2013. The Mississippi Historical Society listed the campus as a Mississippi landmark in 1996.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Black Creek Wild and Scenic River — 4.3 mi
  A 21-mile black-water creek through De Soto National Forest, a national wild and scenic river since 1986, with white sandbars, bluffs and primitive camping.
• Mississippi Armed Forces Museum — 9.2 mi
  The state military museum inside Camp Shelby, where 750,000 soldiers trained for the Second World War, among them the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 18 mi
  Hattiesburg's "Civil Rights Church," a Freedom School site in 1964 where Pete Seeger taught music and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke weeks before his death.
• Hub City Historic District — 19 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.

More markers nearby

• Old West Florida — 4.9 mi
• Old Augusta — 13 mi
• Stone County — 14 mi
• Purvis (1908 tornado) — 14 mi