Historic District information

Okolona Elementary School This building was built in 1924 in same location as former building and served grades 1-12 of the white population. It was a three-story structure with a large front landing and flights of steps leading to the seco... Read more

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 i... Read more

Okolona Presbyterian Church This church was constructed in the 1880’s. The Presbyterians formed their church in 1856 and built a church around 1859 on the corner of Jefferson and School Streets.

Okolona Health Department -Construction 1960-Colonial Revival- This health center was constructed through funding provided by the federal Hill-Burton Act of 1946. It is a good example of a small, mid-century clinic in a rural community A pl... Read more

Okolona Carnegie Library This building was built in 1914. In 1915, a really extraordinary thing happened. The mayor and city council after ‘much deliberation’ decided to allow women to vote in an election to select a librarian for the n... Read more

US Post Office This location was built in 1937. There is a hidden treasure in the lobby. In 1939, a mural entitled ‘The Richness of the Soil’ was painted by Harold G. Egan. This was part of the Works Progress Administration, later calle... Read more

First United Methodist Church This church building was erected in 1908. Organized in the 1840s, the first Methodist Church was built in 1846 or 47 on corner of Main/Church; another was built there in 1865. The next location was built in 187... Read more

Brumby’s Laundromat-213 Main Street-c. 1926

Masonic Hall (New Era Lodge No. 13)-c. 1897. Demolished in April 2010 and rebuilt

Okolona Messenger Built in 1900. The Okolona Messenger is the oldest business establishment in Chickasaw County. It was first owned by Frank Burkitt and then by the Quinn Family, Criswell Family, and now the Blankenship Family. It has been ... Read more

Welcome Center   c. 1905. Building fell and will be rebuilt

Stanfield Building - c. 1905

Carter Building -c.1924

Chickasaw County Courthouse/Masonic Lodge-234-238 This building was constructed in 1924. It is a three-story brick building of commercial appearance, which contains Masonic lodge rooms on the third story, the Chickasaw County Second Distric... Read more

Okolona Dentistry -c. 1899

Excel Commons -c.1889-formerly Rubel's Department Store and Howard’s Department Store

Excel Commons - c, 1889 Formerly Fisher’s Hardware

Excel Downtown Apartments -c. 1889 Formerly Fisher’s

Excel Commons -c. 1889 Formerly Fisher Furniture and Tom Gregory Grocery

Bank of Okolona This building was built in 1924 by the Okolona Banking Company. It has been occupied by the Bank of Okolona since January 3, 1931 when R.W. Chandler was president of the bank.

Okolona Area Chamber of Commerce - c. 1889

Unoccupied - c. 1942. Formerly Chandler Furniture and Sidney’s Department Store

Okolona Payment Center 217 Main Street-c. 1889

Unoccupied c/ 1889 Formerly Colbert’s New Deal Grocery (McGee’s Main Street Food Mart)

Unoccupied c. 1889 Formerly Dawson Grocery

Angel Homemakers 1925

Okolona Pharmacy and Okolona Gifts

Okolona First Baptist Church This structure was built in 1924. The original Baptist Church in Okolona was built in 1849 on the northwest corner of Main and Church Streets. In 1895, one was built in the location of the present one. ...

Calvary Baptist This building was built in 1974 and replaced one already located there. Calvary Baptist represents the merging of two Black Baptist Churches in Okolona in 1920. The earliest Baptist Church for Blacks in Okolona was organized... Read more

Lifeline Baptist Church This building was purchased by the congregation of the Christian Church in 1923 and was originally built in 1878 by the Methodists. It was used as a residence between 1908 and 1923. The first record of a Christian Ch... Read more

Mt Pisgah United Methodist Church This building of the 1990s replaced one built in 1896 that stood practically in the same location. Mt. Pisgah, organized in 1867, was the first church in town established solely for Blacks. ...

St. Theresa’s Catholic This Gothic Revival church structure was built and dedicated in 1922. The original Catholic Church was dedicated on September 23, 1883 and was located on corner of Washington and N. Olive. The original church was na... Read more