Yellow Fever House

The building began in 1836 as the Chickasaw Cession land office, the oldest brick building in town. William Holland, a newspaper editor and Civil War veteran, saw the epidemic in Grenada in July 1878 with Will Wooten and urged a quarantine, but officials refused and took in refugees. Holland gave his bachelor quarters here to two men from Grenada, who died on August 25, and their bodies were passed out a window. Former mayor A. W. Goodrich was the first native to die, on August 31. Holland chaired the relief committee and died on October 25.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum — 0.4 mi
  The house in Holly Springs where Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, now a museum of African American history, art and culture.
• Rust College — 0.7 mi
  The first historically Black college founded in Mississippi, started in 1866 in a Holly Springs church by a formerly enslaved minister and a white Methodist clergyman.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 32 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi Central R.R. Campaign — steps away
• Holly Springs — steps away
• R. L. Burnside — 0.2 mi
• Junior Kimbrough — 0.2 mi