Pearl Methodist Church

The road in front of the church keeps the name of the railroad stop that came first. Pearson began in 1882, after John W. Pearson and his wife Jennie sold land to the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad, and a depot, post office, store, cemetery, church and school followed. Residents petitioned in 1911 for a more central school to be called Pearl. Pearl was not a city until June 29, 1973, after a state Supreme Court order. In 1970 it counted 9,613 white residents and ten Black residents, and its own history notes Klan violence.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — 3.2 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 — 3.3 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 3.8 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 6.6 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.

More markers nearby

• Gold Coast — 2.0 mi
• Temple Beth Israel — 3.1 mi
• Hal & Mal's — 3.1 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 3.3 mi