P.T.A. Birthplace

Chautauqua Park drew summer crowds from 1892 to 1917 with scholars and evangelists on the program. By 1916 it held 88 cottages, a tabernacle, a 40-room hotel, a restaurant and a grocery, served by ten trains a day on the same New Orleans line that made the town a shipping center for tomatoes and other produce. In 1909 delegates from five cities met at the assembly grounds and formed the first Mississippi Conference of Parents and Teachers. The assembly's last season was 1917.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — 23 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.
• Farish Street Historic District — 23 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 24 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 25 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

• Crystal Springs — 0.9 mi
• Tommy Johnson — 0.9 mi
• Bus-Train Collision of 1942 — 0.9 mi
• Robert Johnson Birthplace — 9.7 mi