Walthall County Courthouse and Jail

Walthall County, named for Confederate general and senator Edward C. Walthall, is one of the state's newest, cut from Pike and Marion counties in the early 1910s. During World War II its farmers answered the call for food. Historian Maury Klein reports barn-bursting harvests, with 23 percent more cotton, 146 percent more hay, 110 percent more eggs and 619 percent more truck crops, and a Food for Freedom Thanksgiving in Tylertown, then a town of 1,100, where farmers brought 5,000 fried chickens and 350 turkeys and Claude Wickard praised the small farmer.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• John Ford Home — 22 mi
  A frontier house on the Pearl River where the 1816 Pearl River Convention met, kept by the Marion County Historical Society and open to the public since 1963.

More markers nearby

• Conerly's P. O. and Lampton's Store — steps away
• Walthall County Training School — 3.2 mi
• Holmesville — 11 mi
• Creation of Pike County — 12 mi