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Location Directions: From the stop light at the
intersection of Jackson Avenue and Highway 6, travel east on Highway 6 until you reach the
Lamar Blvd. exit. Take a left on Lamar and continue North until you
have gone through the Square. Take a right on Jefferson Blvd.
Then take a left on 14th Street. When you are a couple of houses from
the end, the site and marker will be on your right.
Click here for a map. Inscription:
L. Q. C. Lamar House: Home of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar from
1868 to 1888. Lamar was an educator at the University of Mississippi;
a colonel 19th Mississippi Infantry C.S.A.; a U. S. congressman; senator;
Secretary of the Interior; and an associate judge of the U. S. Supreme
Court. This property was designated a National Historic Landmark on
May 15, 1975.
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