Grace Episcopal Church

African American Tour

Grace Episcopal Church

Okolona, Mississippi 38860, United States

Created By: City of Okolona

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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).

This point of interest is part of the tour: African American Tour


 

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