Webster County Courthouse

The county began as Sumner County in 1874 and was renamed for Daniel Webster in 1890, matching its neighbours Clay and Calhoun, named for political heroes of the 1830s. In 1880 nearly three in four farmers owned their land, well above the state average of 56 percent. Around 1900 Populism did better here than across most of Mississippi. The county also hosted one of the state's earliest Sacred Harp singing conventions. Artist Ethel Wright Mohamed, who told Mississippi life in embroidery, was born near Eupora in 1908, and Governor Thomas L. Bailey grew up here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 28 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.

More markers nearby

• Eupora — 4.6 mi
• Thomas T. Gore — 17 mi
• Fannie Lou Hamer — 20 mi
• Ackerman — 21 mi