Roberts Schoolhouse

A teacher needed only an eighth-grade education and had to read a paragraph at the courthouse to show she could manage students. Teachers had to be single, follow a strict dress code, and could not ride in an automobile except with their father or brother. Classes ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., six months a year, so children could do their chores. The school cost $79 to build and was moved piece by piece in 1981. It appears to be the only one-room schoolhouse on a Mississippi campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longleaf Trace — 1.0 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.
• African American Military History Museum — 2.5 mi
  The wooden USO club that opened in March 1942 for Black soldiers training at Camp Shelby, now a museum of African American military service from the Revolutionary War to Iraq.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 2.6 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.
• Hub City Historic District — 2.6 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.

More markers nearby

• Lloyd Green — steps away
• Craig Wiseman — 0.6 mi
• Pinehills Neighborhood — 2.2 mi
• Old Hattiesburg High School — 2.4 mi