Site of Assembly Hall
Built ca. 1801 and operated as a tavern by Charles De France and Richard Fletcher, the two-story, wood frame building that stood here housed Mississippi's territorial legislature from at least 1808 to 1811. At the time, Washington was the territorial capital. Among the activities of the assembly during this period was the chartering of Mississippi's first bank in 1809. In addition, the tavern housed the Supreme Court. Listed National Register of Historic Places in 1978, Assembly Hall burned in 1993.