Yazoo County Courthouse

This courthouse came through the fire of May 25, 1904. A fire that day destroyed about three-fourths of Yazoo City, most of its homes among them, and a canal stopped the flames short of the 1872 courthouse and ten antebellum houses. Local legend blames a witch; the usual account is a boy playing with matches. The town needed almost two years to recover. For a county seat that had watched Union troops burn its first courthouse in 1864, the second brush with ruin ended at a canal.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Triangle Cultural Center — steps away
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
• Blue Front Cafe — 15 mi
  A cinder-block juke joint in Bentonia, opened in 1948 by Carey and Mary Holmes, home of the Bentonia school of blues and a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
• Delta National Forest — 22 mi
  The only bottomland hardwood forest in the national forest system, some 60,000 acres of oak, ash and cypress in Sharkey County, run with the state as Sunflower Wildlife Management Area.

More markers nearby

• Bank of Yazoo City — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — steps away
• B.S. Ricks Memorial Library — steps away
• The Oakes House — 0.2 mi