Macedonia Rosenwald School

Two neighboring congregations, Concord and Macedonia Missionary Baptist, pooled their materials and labor to match a Rosenwald Fund grant and built a standard-plan, two-teacher wooden school on donated land. Historian Mary Hoffschwelle counts it as one of nine Rosenwald schools in Panola County and about 550 in Mississippi built between 1910 and 1932. It taught Black children until 1963. Members of the same two churches later built the community center that replaced it in 2000. Alumni gathered for the marker's unveiling in September 2017, followed by a symposium at Ole Miss.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 15 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.
• Enid Lake — 16 mi
  A Corps of Engineers lake on the Yocona River, finished in 1952 after farm families were moved off the valley floor, and the home water of a world-record white crappie.
• Casey Jones Railroad Museum — 27 mi
  The old Illinois Central depot in Water Valley, where Casey Jones worked in the 1890s, with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker for the songs written about his death in 1900.

More markers nearby

• Dr. King Visits Batesville — 5.4 mi
• St. Stephens Episcopal Church — 5.8 mi
• Batesville — 5.9 mi
• Batesville Magnolia Cemetery — 6.5 mi