Starling-Wilburn House

The cottage at 1461 Bell Road has stayed in one family since 1880. William Mosely, an early Black landowner in the Yazoo City area, bought the house and three acres from Ann Holt, a large landowner, in October 1880 for $150, and he was already living there. In 1884 he bought 9.17 more acres from her. After his death his heirs sold the property in 1909 to his granddaughter Mary Woods. It is a one-story planter's cottage of about 1860 on part of the old Ridge Road from Yazoo City to Vicksburg.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — 2.1 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 13 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 21 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Navy Yard — 0.7 mi
• The Oakes House — 1.7 mi
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — 1.8 mi
• C.S.S. Arkansas — 1.9 mi