New Era Masonic Lodge

New Era Masonic Lodge

Street-formerly a Dance Hall upstairs and shops on first floor

• Mary Wheeler’s Millinery Shop- Millenary shop with clothing and fashion for women: hats, gloves, under garments, trimmings, etc. sold by a milliner

• Dr. Charles Wheeler’s office- Dr. Wheeler, Sr. was a licensed practicing physician. His father was a slave of General Wheeler, a prosperous and slave-holding farmer before the Civil War. Dr. Wheeler graduated from high school and taught several years in Chickasaw County. He climaxed his career by serving as principal of the Houston Colored School. After that he decided on the career of medicine as his life’s vocation and entered MaHarry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating with honors, Dr. Wheeler came back to Okolona and began a practice of medicine among his race. He was successful, not only as a doctor, but also in the religious, civic, and political life of the blacks of Okolona. No doubt his success is due partially to his wife, Mary McIntosh, an honor graduate of Illinois University.