O.E.S. Birthplace

The order was a sickbed draft before it was a ritual. Rob Morris, a lawyer teaching at Eureka Masonic College in Richland in 1850, wrote down its principles while confined by illness, in his Rosary of the Eastern Star. By 1855 he had organized a supreme constellation in New York to charter chapters. In 1866 he handed the work to Robert Macoy, who built the chapter system and turned the Rosary into a ritual. Like Freemasonry, the order did not admit African Americans; the first Prince Hall chapter was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1874.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 24 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.
• Triangle Cultural Center — 26 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.
• Blue Front Cafe — 32 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

More markers nearby

• Elmore James — 4.1 mi
• Goodman School — 4.4 mi
• Edmund Scarborough and John Scott — 5.6 mi
• Robert G. Clark Jr. — 6.0 mi