Bus-Train Collision of 1942

On August 5, 1942. a southbound train collided with a westbound bus, killing fifteen bus passengers and injuring many more. The Greyhound bus, traveling from New Orleans to Jackson, stopped at the east side of the Marion Avenue railroad crossing ...

Slave Cabins

Looking Back

The island's landscape has changed dramatically since the plantation era. Gone are the roofs, fruit trees, wells, and garden plots. Trees and grasses now replace fields once tilled by slaves.

To be a slave was to be a human being ...

The Great Mound

The outer embankment of this earthwork was constructed about 160 B.C. by the Adena people. Later, the Hopewell people added a small mound containing four human skeletons, cremations, bone awls, pottery shards, projectile points and a platform pipe that were ...

Martha Louise Morrow Foxx

Born in North Carolina, Martha Louise Morrow Foxx (1902-1985), was educated at the North Carolina School for the Blind and the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. After the Mississippi State Commission for the Blind was created in 1928, ...

British Bomb

Fired by the British Naval Forces during the bombardment of this fort Sept. 13-14, 1814 when by the light of “Bombs bursting in air” the National Anthem – The Star Spangled Banner had its birth.

Marker can be reached from ...

County Line Baptist Church and Cemetery

This congregation began soon after the end of the Civil War in the Freedmen's community known as Weeks Quarters (about 2 mi. S). Early prayer meetings and worship services were conducted in homes.

Led by the Rev. M. McBerry, the ...

William Harris Hardy

1837 - 1917

Builder of Railroads

Pioneer in the Development

of the Resources of

South Mississippi

Founder of the Cities of

Hattiesburg and Gulfport

A Dreamer

Whose dreams Came True

Marker can be reached from West Front Street (U.S. 11).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Bel Air

Southern Sympathizers Sought

On July 31, 1861, 300 men from the 12th Pennsylvania Infantry under Capt. Daniel Leasure marched into Bel Air to arrest Southern sympathizers and confiscate weapons from local militia units. The troops halted at the courthouse square, then ...

Wacker's Wend

Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart Lake

Named for Fred G. Wacker Jr. who drove Jim Kimberly's Healey Silverstone to a second place finish in the 1950 sixty mile main event.

Marker donated by: Elkhart Lake's Road America Inc.

Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart ...

Sterling High School

Established 1929

Destroyed by fire 1967

Past Principals

J.C. Martin •

R.L. Hickson •

Joseph E. Beck •

Harold O. Mims, Sr. •

Luke H. Chatman

Sponsored and erected by

Class of 1955

Marker is at the intersection of Jenkins Street and Maloy Street, on the ...