Homeplace of Baylus Benjamin (B.B.) McKinney

McKinney's best-known hymns arrived in a run. The Nail Scarred Hand and Let Others See Jesus in You date from 1924, Satisfied with Jesus from 1926, Speak to My Heart from 1927, Neath the Old Olive Trees from 1934, and Breathe on Me and Wherever He Leads I'll Go from 1937. In 1940 he edited the Broadman Hymnal, published in Nashville. Falls Creek Baptist Encampment in Oklahoma named a chapel for him, torn down in 2003 and 2004 for a new tabernacle. He died on September 7, 1952, at 66.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bistineau State Park — 8.5 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.
• Germantown Colony Museum — 18 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.

More markers nearby

• Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker — 9.1 mi
• Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Ambush Site — 9.1 mi
• The Arrest of Isaac Williams and his Men — 13 mi
• Academy Park — 13 mi