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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
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Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [ 2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.
Biloxi. A sidewheel steamer built in 1867, foundered in a storm in 1881. 29. Lameuse Street Historic District. Upload image. June 1, 2015. ( #15000301) Roughly 200-300 blocks Lameuse St., 300 block Haise St. and 300 block of Main St.
Freedom Farm Cooperative was an agricultural cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project. The cooperative sought to uplift Black families through food provisions, such as vegetable gardens and pig-raising, and ...
Though no original Native American buildings remain above ground, a number of constructed platform mounds have been preserved. LaPointe-Krebs House. Pascagoula. 1757. House/Military. The LaPointe-Krebs House is the oldest building in Mississippi, and the state's only surviving French Colonial structure.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Friday toured the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi's capital city, saying afterward that transportation is important ...
The Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms were started in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1936; and Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1939, respectively. The farms were founded and run by missionary evangelist and author Sherwood Eddy, and Reverend Sam H. Franklin, with the goal of helping southern sharecroppers out of their economic plight ...