St. Stephens Episcopal Church

Andrew "Swede" Johnson, a renowned northwest Mississippi builder and architect, completed the church in 1896. Its congregation dwindled and disbanded by the early 1940s. During the 1950s and until 1967 the building served as Batesville's public library, and afterward as a meeting place for clubs and community gatherings. Bavarian-style, hand-carved wooden furniture made by German prisoners of war at Camp Como during World War II was donated to the American Legion post that used the building.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sardis Lake and Dam — 11 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 — 12 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.
• Casey Jones Railroad Museum — 22 mi
  The old Illinois Central depot in Water Valley, where Casey Jones worked in the 1890s, with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker for the songs written about his death in 1900.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Batesville — steps away
• Dr. King Visits Batesville — 0.5 mi
• Batesville Magnolia Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• Macedonia Rosenwald School — 5.8 mi