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Height. 62 feet (19 m) Dedicated date. October 26, 1906. Dedicated to. Illinois soldiers who fought in the Vicksburg campaign. The Illinois Memorial (also known as the Illinois State Memorial and the Illinois Monument) is a public memorial located at Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Dedicated in 1906 ...
The Old Courthouse, Warren County, stands prominently on a hill in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and was a symbol of Confederate resistance during the Siege of Vicksburg. [4] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968 [3][4] and a Mississippi Landmark in 1986. [1] The landmarked area comprises the entire Courthouse Square, which includes ...
The park includes 1,325 historic monuments and markers, 20 miles (32 km) of historic trenches and earthworks, a 16-mile (26 km) tour road, a 12.5-mile (20.1 km) walking trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USS Cairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal site, where the Union Army attempted to build a canal to let their ships ...
Pemberton's Headquarters. / 32.3482444°N 90.8776472°W / 32.3482444; -90.8776472. Pemberton's Headquarters, also known as the Willis-Cowan House, is a historic house museum at 1018 Crawford Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Built in 1836, it served as the headquarters for Confederate General John C. Pemberton during most of the 47-day ...
The Michigan State Memorial is located on Union Avenue within the Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Military Park. The memorial is an obelisk made of white Bethel Granite that stands 37 feet (11 m) in height. It cost $10,000 and was dedicated on November 10, 1916. The sculptor was Herbert Adams. The design features a female allegory of the ...
79001337 [1] Added to NRHP. January 8, 1979. McRaven was built c. 1797 by Andrew Glass in a town called Walnut Hills, which is now Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the Civil War era, it was known as the Bobb House, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as such. McRaven got its current name from the street it is located on ...
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States.It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. [5] Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719.
NRHP reference No. 03001140 [1] Added to NRHP. November 14, 2003. South Cherry Street Historic District is a historic district in Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.. [2] The district is roughly rectangular in shape and includes Cherry Street and Monroe and Drummond Streets, from just south of South Street (the south boundary of the Uptown Vicksburg ...