World War II Airfield Hangars

Augustine Field was one stage in a larger training system. Under contract with the Army Air Corps, the Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics ran primary pilot training for flying cadets here, and the field reported to Jackson Army Air Base. Three small nearby fields stood ready for emergency and overflow landings. The field had a single 3,600-foot concrete runway and a turf landing area of about 4,000 feet in every direction, and the main trainer was the Fairchild PT-19. Records show it was deactivated on June 30, 1945, and declared surplus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland — 1.6 mi
  The stretch of the Natchez Trace around Ridgeland, where a worn section of the Old Trace, the Ross Barnett Reservoir and the Choctaw town of Chisha Foka share a few miles of parkway.
• Tougaloo College — 4.2 mi
  A historically Black college north of Jackson, founded on a former plantation in 1869, whose students staged Mississippi's first sit-in and whose chapel hosted the movement's leaders.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 9.4 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.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Strawberry Patch House — 0.4 mi
• Dorroh Street Historic District — 1.1 mi
• Old School Gymnasium — 1.4 mi
• Farr Mercantile Company — 1.4 mi