Lexington

William Hall Smith, the Holmes County school superintendent, began Corn Clubs for boys in the spring of 1907 to improve farm families' diet and methods, with a Home Culture Study Club for girls. That fall 82 of the original 120 members showed their crops at the county fair, where local merchants gave prizes for the most ears on a stalk and the highest yield. Seaman Knapp then hired Smith for a dollar a year, and Mississippi became the first state with federal money for boys' and girls' demonstration clubs, seven years before the Smith-Lever Act.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 28 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• Bishop Charles H. Mason — steps away
• Hazel Brannon Smith — steps away
• Holmes County Blues — steps away
• St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi