Two frame buildings and a cemetery remain from Acona, once a stagecoach relay station and a center of small farms. The two-story building ( pictured above) combines the church and the grange, a rare survivor of this once common type. It is a rectangular hipped-roofed structure with a double-tiered gallery and double entrances. The church occupied the first floor and a lodge for Acona Grange No. 265 the second. Local tradition attributes its design and construction to a member of the building committee, John A. Hamilton. The Grange, a farmers association and populist response to the economic and political clout of large planters, was short-lived in Mississippi. Acona Cemetery, established in 1899, spreads out to the rear.
To the southwest, the L-shaped, two-classroom school (1903) has the residential character of the era’s schoolhouses, with single windows rather than the banked windows common by 1920. A stage is located at the intersection of the two rooms. Closed as a school in 1944, it later served as a community center.