The McComb Railroad Depot Museum was awarded the Mississippi Heritage Trust Award for its rehabilitation following an arson in 2021 that destroyed the museum. The museum was burned down in the summer of 2021 by a “highly disturbed” individual named Markez Delmont Smith who was later arrested by local authorities and convicted of one count of first-degree arson. Smith broke through a window in the artifacts room, which held the museum’s most valu…
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