Legion Lodge

The lodge was the heart of a larger project. The Civilian Conservation Corps began building Legion State Park in October 1934, and by July 1935 it was among nine new Mississippi parks under construction. It opened to the public in July 1937 on the north edge of Louisville, beside the Tombigbee National Forest, with fishing on two small lakes of 12 and 4 acres. The lodge itself is described as the oldest structure in any Mississippi state park, hand-hewn and unaltered. The whole district was listed on the National Register in 1998.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 17 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.
• Nanih Waiya — 17 mi
  The Mother Mound of the Choctaw in Winston County, a sacred origin place returned to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in 2008.
• Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Site — 20 mi
  A National Historic Landmark in rural Noxubee County where the Choctaw Nation signed away its last Mississippi land on September 27, 1830.

More markers nearby

• Carl Jackson — 2.4 mi
• Governor Ray Mabus — 13 mi
• Governor J.P. Coleman — 13 mi
• Ackerman — 13 mi