Rankin County Courthouses

Brandon's law offices launched two very different careers. Robert Lowry was admitted to the bar in 1859 and set up practice in Brandon, served as a Confederate brigadier general, returned to his Brandon practice after the war and was governor from 1882 to 1890. Samuel Alfred Beadle, born into slavery in Georgia in 1857 and brought to Rankin County by his mother at the end of the Civil War, read law in Brandon offices and was admitted to the bar in 1884 after a grueling examination by white and Black lawyers. He later practiced for more than forty years.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 11 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 11 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 — 12 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.
• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 13 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.

More markers nearby

• Town Square — steps away
• Seminary Square — 0.3 mi
• Old Brandon Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• Drakes United Methodist Church — 7.3 mi