Nash Street Historic District

The Nash Street Historic District is locally significant to Starkville and Oktibbeha County because, as the earliest and most intact of the city’s twentieth-century suburban subdivisions, it represents and embodies the transformation of Starkville from a small, agriculturally-oriented trading center to a modern, university-oriented city in response to the substantial growth of Mississippi A&M; College in the 1930s. (The college was redesignated Mississippi State College in 1935, and became Mississippi State University in 1958).

The historic district is Starkville’s first subdivision, the first of 61 subdivisions registered at the Courthouse from 1934-1974 (The Historical Development of Land Use in Starkville, Mississippi, A Small University City, August, 1975, by Luceille Liston Mitlin, Figure 7, pp 22, 223).