Iuka Normal

Iuka Normal Institute opened in 1882 and is reported to have been the first normal school built south of the Mason-Dixon line; the town's own history calls it the first built in the former Confederacy after the Civil War. It ran as a day school and a boarding school and taught first through tenth grade. In 1892 its tenth-grade graduates were judged qualified to serve as principals of high schools. The school closed in 1902, after twenty years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 14 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 17 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 19 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 21 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.

More markers nearby

• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 0.3 mi
• Iuka — 0.3 mi
• Brig. Gen. Henry Little — 0.8 mi
• Eastport — 0.9 mi