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FAYETTE CITY HALL

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1965, Norwood and Kenney. 59 Medgar Evers Blvd.

This small county seat, incorporated in 1830, gained national attention in 1969 when Charles Evers, brother of civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, became the first African American mayor of a town in Mississippi (outside the all-black town of Mound Bayou) since Reconstruction. The one-story, brick, modernist city hall was only four years old when Evers took his historic oath of office on its steps. On the front lawn is the stone marker to Medgar Evers erected by Charles Evers.

Next door is the former Thomas Hinds Lodge (1844), one of the state’s oldest surviving Masonic lodges. The two-story brick building housed the Presbyterian congregation on its first floor. The pointed-arched windows were installed around 1900.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

POPLAR HILL AME CHURCH AND SCHOOL
OLD COUNTRY STORE (COHN BROTHERS STORE)
MOUNT LOCUST
ROSSWOOD

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "FAYETTE CITY HALL", [Fayette, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND66.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 57-57.

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