Scope and Contents Collection consists of digital facsimile printouts of newspaper clippings about Centenary College while it existed in Brandon Springs, Mississippi. Also included is an inventory containing brief notes and citations for the clippings. The clippings include advertisements, announcements, articles, editorials, letters about the college, and descriptions of the campus property. Various clippings from October 1841 to July 1843 document the challenges of incorporating the college and...

Scope and Contents Typescript of letter about Centenary College (Brandon Springs, Mississippi). Thornton writes of travelling with her family from Virginia and arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1841. She describes Centenary College’s campus, dormitory, cottages, and a nearby medicinal spring. One of the college’s buildings is the home of her son, Thomas Chapman Thornton, who serves as the president of Centenary. She also mentions people enslaved by her family that have traveled with the Thorntons;...