Bravo, Hinds County! These are the kinds of courthouses I would expect locations of your stature to have! Dominant in Jackson, elegant in Raymond, well designed in both. Unfortunately, Jackson could never be the center of political gravity here. Not when it’s blocks away from…
…the Mississippi State Capitol. As capitols go, I liked it. I also took a few minutes to do the EarthCache there about the Georgia granite that was used to make its foundation. It also added “Georgia” to my list of state names for the oldest uncompleted challenge I’ve been working on. That would have been enough for the county since the Mississippi County Challenge has no cache type restrictions, but I had been grabbing Traditionals in the other states so I just continued here.
The cache was a birdhouse in a nearby cemetery (there always is one). I missed out on the grave of Eudora Welty, but I had no idea where it was and had neither the time to search it out nor the desire to search in the rain. But I did see a different grave, that of the Simms dog. Supposedly, when the young daughter of the family Simms died, their dog came and sat at the foot of her grave every day until it passed away. This is a bit of local legend; the dog’s grave had no dates on it as you would expect a grave to have. But as local legends go, it’s harmless and even nice. Who could possibly hope for that kind of devotion except from a dog?
From there I continued on to the second county seat, Raymond, passing through the western side of Jackson, which continued to prove my theories on socioeconomics and cache placement. It’s nice when a secondary courthouse is an actual courthouse and not some bland satellite building. But time was still tapping on my shoulder. I shot off to the north quickly but got caught behind a funeral cortege that shut down I-55. Not to disparage the dead, but my schedule was already screwed, so why not? The delay eventually cleared though so I kept going to…
Geocaching While Black 