[3] The Holmes County Masons hired Robert Morris away from Mount Sylvan Academy in Oxford to run their new school.

In the winter of 1849-1850, while in Jackson, Mississippi, to recuperate from an attack of an ailment that he described as rheumatism, he focused his attention on developing a women's Masonic organization.

[3] After the Civil War, Holmes County took over the abandoned schoolhouse for use as a segregated public school for African Americans.

[6] Following the school's closure, the schoolhouse was leased to the Order of the Eastern Star, which undertook an extensive restoration project that was finally completed in 1979.

[3] The Eureka Masonic College building is located in a rural setting in Holmes County along Mississippi Highway 17 near Interstate 55.