Sardis

Sardis shares the county seat with Batesville, across the Tallahatchie River. One of its residents was Anders Jönsson, born in Ovansjö, Sweden, and trained at Uppsala, who won a prize from King Charles XV for a design and spent it emigrating in 1865. He became Andrew Johnson, lived first among Swedes in Evanston, Illinois, and about 1870 moved to Sardis. There he was contractor for the Second Empire Panola County Courthouse of 1873, designed by James B. Cook. Johnson designed or is credited with 61 Panola County buildings, and several of his Sardis houses are on the National Register.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 7.1 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.
• Enid Lake — 20 mi
  A Corps of Engineers lake on the Yocona River, finished in 1952 after farm families were moved off the valley floor, and the home water of a world-record white crappie.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 22 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Rowan Oak — 23 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.

More markers nearby

• Como — 5.2 mi
• Fred McDowell — 5.4 mi
• Otha Turner — 5.4 mi
• Dr. King Visits Batesville — 8.2 mi