Hillman College

Hillman College stayed open through the Civil War and counted among its early faculty Charles Hillman Brough, who later served as governor of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921. The school had begun as the Central Female Institute, organized by the Central Baptist Association, and was renamed Hillman late in the nineteenth century. In 1942 Mississippi College bought and absorbed it, and the Baptist college that had disbanded its own women's department decades earlier became coeducational again.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 6.7 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 — 8.5 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 9.1 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 9.2 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

• Clinton — steps away
• The Clinton Riot — 0.2 mi
• Mississippi College — 0.3 mi
• Clinton's Blues Legacy — 1.4 mi