Millsaps College

Reuben Webster Millsaps, a Confederate major and Harvard-trained financier, gave fifty thousand dollars toward a Methodist college, and the state's Methodists matched it. Early on, the campus collected firsts: Mississippi's first golf course in 1901, a first woman graduate, Mary Letitia Holloman, in 1902, and in 1965 the distinction of being the state's first all-white college to desegregate voluntarily. The land had been the estate of J. A. P. Camp, bought in 1882 for a Baptist school that educated freedpeople, now Jackson State University, before it moved southwest of the city.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 1.2 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 1.3 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 1.5 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 2.3 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• The "Cotton Bale" Battery — 0.5 mi
• Manship House — 0.6 mi
• The Jackson Volcano — 0.6 mi
• Willie Morris — 0.7 mi