Martyn Mission

A Chickasaw decision built the school. The nation's chiefs in council appropriated $5,000 for two new schools, with $2,500 a year for their support: Martyn, on Pigeon Roost Creek near Holly Springs, and Caney Creek, on the Tennessee River in Alabama. The Presbyterians sent William Blair to Martyn. By 1830 the Monroe church counted a hundred members, ten of them at Martyn; about half were Chickasaw, a few white, and the rest Black. In 1831 the Missionary Herald reported that Blair had asked to be discharged, and James Holmes was to take his place.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum — 6.1 mi
  The house in Holly Springs where Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, now a museum of African American history, art and culture.
• Rust College — 6.1 mi
  The first historically Black college founded in Mississippi, started in 1866 in a Holly Springs church by a formerly enslaved minister and a white Methodist clergyman.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 27 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.

More markers nearby

• Asbury United Methodist Church — 5.6 mi
• Yellow Fever House — 5.8 mi
• Holly Springs — 5.8 mi
• Mississippi Central R.R. Campaign — 5.8 mi