Old Tishomingo County Courthouse

Iuka's courthouse has been built twice. The first, built for $5,000 in 1870 after Iuka became seat of the newly formed Tishomingo County, was a three-story Romanesque Revival building with Second Empire touches. A fire in 1886 partly destroyed it, and in 1888 the surviving portion was rebuilt by architect L. M. Weathers under the supervision of former Governor John M. Stone. It was ready for court business by the end of 1889 and served until 1971. A WPA project added a wing in the 1930s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 14 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 17 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 20 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 21 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.

More markers nearby

• Iuka — steps away
• Iuka Normal — 0.3 mi
• Eastport — 0.6 mi
• Unknown Soldiers C.S.A. — 0.9 mi