Wesleyanna Methodist Church

The church doubled as a schoolhouse. Star began in July 1900 as a train stop on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, later part of the Illinois Central. When the new school due to open for 1921-22 was not ready until after Christmas, elementary pupils met in Wesleyanna Methodist Church and high school students at Star Baptist Church. Star went on to build a bank, hotel, car dealership, stores and a school, then lost much of that as people left rural areas for cities.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — 16 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 16 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Farish Street Historic District — 16 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 19 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Piney Woods — 4.0 mi
• Martha Louise Morrow Foxx — 4.0 mi
• The Piney Woods School — 4.0 mi
• Seminary Square — 12 mi