Stone County

Stone County was a different kind of Mississippi county. In 1930 it had only 5,704 people, three-quarters white and a quarter Black, and almost no tenant farming: owners ran 78 percent of its 678 farms, against about 30 percent statewide. It had the second-lowest share of land in farms in the state, with timber and several canneries supplying work. Most church members belonged to the American Baptist Association, Landmark Baptists who had rejected the Southern Baptist Convention. Dizzy Dean spent much of his life after baseball in Wiggins.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Black Creek Wild and Scenic River — 13 mi
  A 21-mile black-water creek through De Soto National Forest, a national wild and scenic river since 1986, with white sandbars, bluffs and primitive camping.
• Mississippi Armed Forces Museum — 23 mi
  The state military museum inside Camp Shelby, where 750,000 soldiers trained for the Second World War, among them the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
• Salmon Site (Tatum Salt Dome) — 31 mi
  The only place east of the Mississippi River where the United States detonated nuclear devices, two underground tests in 1964 and 1966 in Lamar County.

More markers nearby

• Gulf & Ship Island Railroad — 1.7 mi
• Professor W.P. Locker — 2.3 mi
• The Harvey Battle — 3.0 mi
• The Stapp Sisters — 3.7 mi