Mississippi College

Mississippi College began as Hampstead Academy, chartered by citizens of Mount Salus, now Clinton, in January 1826. It became Mississippi Academy in 1827 and Mississippi College in 1830. Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists each took a turn at running it, the Presbyterians from 1842 to 1850, before the Mississippi Baptist Convention took over. The 1860 chapel, which also housed Clinton's First Baptist Church, is the only antebellum building left on campus. In 1942 the college merged with nearby Hillman College and became coeducational again. Its alumni include governors, judges, and the novelist Barry Hannah.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 6.8 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 8.6 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 9.2 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 9.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Clinton — 0.2 mi
• Hillman College — 0.3 mi
• The Clinton Riot — 0.4 mi
• Clinton's Blues Legacy — 1.5 mi