Palo Alto

Palo Alto took its name from the 1846 battle of that name in the Mexican War, and Company F of the 44th Mississippi Infantry, raised in the community, was called the Palo Alto Confederates. On April 21 and 22, 1863, Barteau's cavalry skirmished here with the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, part of Grierson's raid, and the Union column then burned Okolona. In 1876, armed white men broke up a Republican Club meeting in the community with a field artillery piece. The community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 10 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Waverley Mansion — 19 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 25 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.

More markers nearby

• The Lenoir Plantation — 8.2 mi
• Mary Holmes College — 9.0 mi
• Payne Field Site — 9.2 mi
• Sandy Clay Rosenwald School — 10 mi