The Oakes House - Yazoo City
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N 32° 50.617 W 090° 24.800
15S E 742095 N 3636914
Marker located at the African-American Center at 312 S. Monroe Street in Yazoo City.
Waymark Code: WMH5R5
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 05/27/2013
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The Oakes House
This home was built in stages 1866-1910 by John and Mary Oakes, free blacks who had moved to Yazoo City by the 1850s, and by their first son, Augustus J. Oakes, an educator and builder, who had established the Oakes Lumber Yard by 1900. The Oakes House was entered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1995
Date Installed:: 1995/1/1
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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