William Carey College

The college's record includes a close call. In 1939 its team placed third in the national Putnam mathematics competition, the only women's college ever to do so. A year later the Depression closed the school, and its facilities became officers' housing for nearby Camp Shelby until it reopened in 1946. In 2010 a College of Osteopathic Medicine welcomed its first class of 110 students. On January 21, 2017, an EF3 tornado severely damaged the medical college and nearly every other building on the Hattiesburg campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 1.4 mi
  Hattiesburg's "Civil Rights Church," a Freedom School site in 1964 where Pete Seeger taught music and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke weeks before his death.
• Hub City Historic District — 2.1 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 2.2 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.
• Longleaf Trace — 2.4 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.

More markers nearby

• Bonhomie — 0.9 mi
• John L. Sullivan — 1.0 mi
• Pinehills Neighborhood — 1.4 mi
• William Harris Hardy — 2.1 mi