The Old Tishomingo County Courthouse Museum
The Old Tishomingo County Courthouse is a striking example of Romanesque Architecture with Second Empire style influences. This courthouse is the reason why Iuka is known widely as the “Marriage Capital of the South” with over 44,000 marriage licenses issued in the years when Mississippi had no three-day waiting period for licenses.
The courtroom on the second floor is much the same as it was when John M. Stone, a resident of Iuka and Mississippi’s longest serving Governor, supervised its construction and when the county’s first legal hanging happened here years ago.
The Museum is a classical museum with displays of artifacts with four primary themes:
* Chickasaw Room
* Civil War Room
* World War One, World War Two, and The War On Terror Room
* County-wide Cultural Heritage and History Room.
The courthouse was built in 1870 and is on the National Register of Historic Places; it is a Mississippi Historical Landmark. Strategically situated in Iuka only a few miles from the AL and TN borders on Hwy 72 between Huntsville and Memphis and minutes away from the Tennessee River and Natchez Trace, it is poised to be a tourist gateway and welcome center into Northeast MS.
The Old Courthouse Museum is operated by the Tishomingo County Historical & Genealogical Society.
The courtroom on the second floor is much the same as it was when John M. Stone, a resident of Iuka and Mississippi’s longest serving Governor, supervised its construction and when the county’s first legal hanging happened here years ago.
The Museum is a classical museum with displays of artifacts with four primary themes:
* Chickasaw Room
* Civil War Room
* World War One, World War Two, and The War On Terror Room
* County-wide Cultural Heritage and History Room.
The courthouse was built in 1870 and is on the National Register of Historic Places; it is a Mississippi Historical Landmark. Strategically situated in Iuka only a few miles from the AL and TN borders on Hwy 72 between Huntsville and Memphis and minutes away from the Tennessee River and Natchez Trace, it is poised to be a tourist gateway and welcome center into Northeast MS.
The Old Courthouse Museum is operated by the Tishomingo County Historical & Genealogical Society.
The John Marshall Stone Research Library
The John Marshall Stone Research Library possesses an extensive collection of materials for visitors who researching Tishomingo County History and conducting genealogical research. Available resources include family histories, photographs, county records (microfilm, digital, and hard copies), census records, and cemetery records. This John Marshall Stone Library also possesses printed and digital books, documents and artifacts pertaining to the history of Tishomingo County and its towns. Hard copies and digital resources are available for visitors who are researching family members who served during the Civil War. The Curator is on hand to assist visitors.