Alcorn State University, Literary Society Building, Alcorn State University Campus, Alcorn, Claiborne County, MS
Summary
Significance: The last remaining lyceum on the campus, the building was originally occupied by Oakland College, the first collegiate institution in Mississippi. Its successor, Alcorn State University, was the first landgrant college for Blacks in the Nation, established in 1878.
Survey number: HABS MS-201
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82003098
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Alcorn, 31.87778, -91.13917
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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