Senatobia

Senatobia was where Tate County's crops met the railroad. By the 1880 census the county ranked tenth in the state in corn and twelfth in cotton, and the town shipped out cotton, corn and other produce by train. Behind those figures sat tenancy. In 1900 only 4 percent of the county's 2,206 Black farmers owned their land, against more than a third of white farmers, and by 1930 tenants ran 81 percent of its four thousand farms. In 1928 Northwest Community College opened here, and it now enrolls more than seven thousand students each year.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 17 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.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 30 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 — 31 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.
• Oxford Square — 31 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.

More markers nearby

• O. B. McClinton — steps away
• Sid Hemphill — steps away
• Jessie Mae Hemphill — 1.8 mi
• Coldwater — 5.2 mi