Historical Marker
Whitworth College
Brookhaven, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1960
The campus has had several lives. Methodists ran Whitworth as a women's college from the late 1850s, and the grounds also served as a Confederate hospital. Later came a junior college in the Millsaps system and an evening school for G.I. Bill veterans. Annie Coleman Peyton, who studied and taught here, wanted the state to take it over, but the founding will returned the property to the Whitworth family if the Methodists let go. Brookhaven gave the campus to the state in 1999, and the Mississippi School of the Arts took its first class in 2003.
Where it stands
31.57920, -90.44483 · Directions
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