Jacinto

Jacinto sits near the geographic center of the original Tishomingo County, and its story is how that county was carved up. The town was founded in 1836 and named for the Battle of San Jacinto in the Texas Revolution. Its federal-style county courthouse, built in 1854, is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1869 the county was divided into Tishomingo, Alcorn and Prentiss, and the seat moved in 1870 to Corinth, Iuka and Booneville in turn, after which Jacinto's importance declined.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Contraband Camp — 13 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 — 13 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.
• Tishomingo State Park — 17 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 — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Pete Pyle — 8.2 mi
• Booneville — 10.0 mi
• Booneville Armory — 10 mi
• Capture of Booneville — 11 mi