Walthall Home

Barrett Walthall built the house in 1848, seven years after settling here from Virginia, and his son Edward grew up in it. It later passed to Edward's sister Kate Freeman and then to her granddaughter Kate Freeman Clark, who studied at the Art Students League in New York under William Merritt Chase and others and painted more than a thousand canvases. She came home in 1924, left them stored in a New York warehouse, never painted again and lived as a recluse here until 1957. Her paintings were bequeathed to the town, and a gallery was built next door.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum — 0.3 mi
  The house in Holly Springs where Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, now a museum of African American history, art and culture.
• Rust College — 0.6 mi
  The first historically Black college founded in Mississippi, started in 1866 in a Holly Springs church by a formerly enslaved minister and a white Methodist clergyman.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 32 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.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi Central R.R. Campaign — 0.3 mi
• R. L. Burnside — 0.3 mi
• Airliewood — 0.3 mi
• Junior Kimbrough — 0.3 mi