St. Joseph Catholic School

St. Joseph Catholic School began as a temporary two-classroom school built by the Reverend Henry A. Picherit in 1870, with 56 students. That fall five Sisters of Mercy came from Vicksburg to staff it, and Sister Mary Vincent Browne was the first principal; it was then called St. Joseph Academy. A new school went up in 1914. In 1932 the sisters turned the property over to the Diocese of Natchez, and Bishop Richard Gerow dedicated a brick building in 1933. The school moved to Boling Street in 1965, and in 1998 its middle and high school moved to Madison.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 3.4 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.
• Tougaloo College — 4.9 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 10.0 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Montgomery Memorial Cemetery — 1.0 mi
• Rosa Scott School — 1.3 mi
• Madison — 1.3 mi
• Montgomery House — 1.6 mi