Hawkins Field Terminal

In May 1941, with the Netherlands occupied, the Dutch government in exile opened the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School at Hawkins Field, using Lend-Lease aircraft flown by civilian pilots from the Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics. The airfield had begun as Davis Field in 1928, on 151 acres of the Davis Stock Farm bought for $53,500, and took its name in 1941 from city commissioner A. F. Hawkins. The Army then expanded it into a pilot training base with four concrete runways and hundreds of buildings.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 0.9 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 2.3 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 2.9 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 2.9 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.

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