S. D. Lee Home

Stephen D. Lee is remembered here as a general, but his larger career was spent shaping how the war was remembered. He helped found Mississippi A&M and served as its first president from 1880 to 1899. He sat in the 1890 convention that wrote the constitution with its poll tax and a registrar-judged understanding test; one of 137 delegates was Black. In 1904 he took command of the United Confederate Veterans, the main body of the Lost Cause, and gave his later years to veterans' causes. A stroke followed a speech to Union veterans in Vicksburg in May 1908.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 0.4 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Waverley Mansion — 6.6 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 15 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 48,000-acre refuge of bottomland forest and lakes in Noxubee, Oktibbeha and Winston counties, rebuilt from worn-out farmland, with red-cockaded woodpeckers, alligators and winter eagles.

More markers nearby

• Walter "Red" Barber — steps away
• Franklin Academy — steps away
• Friendship Cemetery — steps away
• Gleed's Corner — 0.2 mi