Grace Church

Canton's oldest church is a country Gothic done in wood. An 1854 church newspaper credited contractor Jacob Larmour with the building and said it was as nearly Gothic as the circumstances would admit. Board-and-batten siding gives the walls upright stripes, and a square tower with pinnacles and lancet windows supplies the vertical lines that ecclesiology-minded Episcopalians prized. The same account called the church plain and simple, but remarkably neat and churchlike. The tower stands on the central axis of the front.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 14 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 — 16 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.
• Blue Front Cafe — 19 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Madison County Courthouse — steps away
• Achilles "Killis" Walton House — steps away
• Hickory Street — 0.3 mi
• March Against Fear — 0.7 mi