Warren Coleman

1849-1904

Founder of the nation's first textile factory owned and operated by blacks, 1897-1904. Mill building is 350 yds. N.

Marker is at the intersection of Warren C. Coleman Boulevard (Bypass U.S. 601) and Main Street SW, on the right when traveling ...

Coleman House

Former Site of Red Lion Inn

First troops to answer

President Abraham Lincoln's

Call to Arms

for the Civil War

were mustered here

Mifflin County

Historic Place

Circa 1871

Marker is on Market Street near Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The King's Highway / Coleman Boulevard

(Front):

In the 1700s, the King's Highway began in Virginia and wound down the coast through the Carolinas. The section of road that passed through Mount Pleasant became one of the first coastal roadways serving as a colonial post road ...

Coleman's Mill

On Yockanookany, 1/2 mi. S., was built in 1836 water mill of W.R. Coleman of Fairfield Co. S.C., first white settler after Choctaw cession in Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 12 and Fentress-Panhandle ...

Washington-Coleman Elementary School

South Boston, Virginia

Determined to provide elementary education for young African Americans, the Rev. Parham B. Ragland started a school in his backyard some time around 1875. Though the "Backyard School" was private, Rev. Ragland was able to garner financial support ...

Mrs. Annie Coleman Peyton

(1852 - 1894)

Mississippi State College for Women, first state supported college for women in the U.S. was founded in 1884 through the efforts of Mrs Peyton, a citizen of Hazelhurst.

Marker is at the intersection of Caldwell Drive (U.S. 51) and ...