Whitworth Female College

[2] In August 1878, local freemasons laid the cornerstone for a new brick building at the college, into which a time capsule was placed.

Senator from Mississippi Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II and Jefferson Davis were expected to attend the ceremony but were "unavoidably absent.

[4] The city of Brookhaven bought the campus and leased it out to various short-lived colleges between 1941 and 1984, when all educational operations at the location ceased.

[6] During his term as Governor of Mississippi (1904-1908), white supremacist politician James Kimble Vardaman, known as the "Great White Chief," spoke at the college and was presented with a bouquet and the following poem:

Thou white man's chief, The Anglo-Saxon Race Has yet to bend its neck beneath A victor's cruel mace.