Completed and ongoing
Practical preservation work protects county records, improves public spaces, and creates new ways to learn.
A multi-phase effort transforming the Highway 8 GM&O underpass with murals, lighting, interpretive video and audio, a kiosk, signs, and pedestrian improvements. Phase one is complete, supported by Mississippi Heritage Hills and Houston tourism funding.
A dedicated space for equipment that creates digital copies of old newspapers, courthouse books, and other fragile historical materials.
The completed addition doubles capacity for courthouse records, research collections, genealogy classes, historical programs, and community meetings.
New workshops will help residents build research skills and learn more about local history.
A new sign featuring people who made their homes and raised families in Chickasaw County more than fifty years ago.
A computer and viewer that lets researchers browse, enlarge, study, and print microfilm records.
Fundraising provided a color copier capable of folding and stapling publications for Society projects.