Grace Episcopal

Grace Episcopal Church-c.1908 Tudor

This church building is a replica of an English chapel. It was consecrated by Bishop Dubose Bratton in 1909. Organized in 1851, the first church was located on the corner of Church and Main St. The bell is from the only steamboat that traveled up and down The Tombigbee River (Source: Mattie Buchanan in Okolona WPA). The designs of this church and Church of the Resurrection in Starkville are based on that of St. Columb’s Chapel in Jackson. Included in the Inventory of the Church Archives of Mississippi – Protestant Episcopal Church – Diocese of Mississippi (1940) (#37, pp. 72-73) and Historic Churches of Mississippi (2007).