Historical Marker
The Stapp Sisters
Wiggins, Stone County · Mississippi
Erected 2018
Wiggins got more from the Stapp sisters than a dolls' house. Emilie and Marie Stapp, who had lived in Indiana, Iowa and Massachusetts, bought a farm out Highway 26 East, named it Friendship Farm and planted a pecan orchard. They deeded land for the Women's Club, gave more than 4,000 books to start Stone County's first lending library, and paid for a new post office. Emilie's children's stories ran in books, periodicals and newspapers, and her scrapbooks run from 1904 to her death in 1962.
Where it stands
30.83922, -89.11267 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Black Creek Wild and Scenic River — 15 miA 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 — 26 miThe 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.
More markers nearby
- Professor W.P. Locker — 1.4 mi
- Gulf & Ship Island Railroad — 2.0 mi
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