Picayune Colored High School

Picayune's Black students got a Rosenwald-built school in 1919, the Pearl River County Training School, replacing a building from 1900. It was later absorbed into George Washington Carver High School, where John Prentiss Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1970. The school was underfunded, and some classes held more than 50 students. Even so, the Carver football team won 64 games in a row in the late 1960s under coach Marion Henley. Carver served Black students until Picayune's public schools integrated in 1970, and the Carver Culture Museum now keeps its history.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby Arboretum — 1.6 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• INFINITY Science Center — 15 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Fontainebleau State Park — 25 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Picayune — 0.6 mi
• Napoleon — 14 mi
• Gainesville Volunteers — 15 mi
• Original Lone Star Republic — 16 mi