Mileston

The government built Mileston unit by unit: about seventy farms of forty to sixty acres, each with a house, barn, chicken coop, well and smokehouse, first rented and then sold for around five thousand dollars. About thirty households also worked one cooperative farm together, and the settlers ran their own gin and store. Owning land gave families unusual independence. In 1963 a citizenship school met at the Rev. J. J. Russell's church, and fourteen farmers led by Hartman Turnbow tried to register at Lexington. All failed the test, and a month later night riders firebombed Turnbow's home.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 20 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.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 32 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.

More markers nearby

• PFC Milton Lee Olive III — 13 mi
• St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 13 mi
• Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory — 13 mi
• Hazel Brannon Smith — 13 mi