Mississippi County Court House

The courthouse on the Osceola square is not the first, and the one you see went up in 1912. Falls Construction Company built the Classical building, designed by John Gainsford and commissioned by County Judge William Driver, on an acre of donated land, replacing a wood-frame courthouse at the edge of town that the county had outgrown. It joined the National Register in 1978. The county still holds court in two places: Osceola for the south, and Blytheville's Chickasawba District courthouse, opened in 1921, for the north.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hampson Archeological Museum State Park — 10 mi
  A free state museum on the town square in Wilson that holds the Nodena collection, one of the best Late Mississippian pottery collections known, from a palisaded village on the Mississippi occupied from A.D. 1400 to 1650.
• Johnny Cash Boyhood Home — 16 mi
  A restored five-room farmhouse in the Dyess Colony, the New Deal resettlement town where Johnny Cash grew up from 1935, with the colony's Administration Building as its museum.
• Herman Davis State Park — 16 mi
  A one-acre state park in Manila around the grave and memorial of Pvt. Herman Davis, a duck-hunting guide who became a scout and sharpshooter in the First World War and was fourth on Pershing's list of heroes.
• Southern Tenant Farmers Museum — 26 mi
  A museum in the 1930s dry cleaner and filling station where leaders of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union met, telling the story of cotton tenancy and the Black and white union it produced.

More markers nearby

• Reggie Young — steps away
• Fighting Near Etowah — 15 mi
• Blytheville Black Commercial Historic District — 16 mi