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Vicksburg Post Office and Customs House (built c. 1894; now the Mississippi River Commission), 1400 Walnut Street; Bonelli House (built c. 1889), 1100 Clay Street; Blum House (built 1902), 1420 Cherry Street; [9] NRHP-listed; Vicksburg City Hall (built 1903), 1401 Walnut Street; McDermott House (built c. 1905), 1100 South Street; NRHP-listed [10]
They rise boldly, though gradually, with alternate swells and gullies, to the height of nearly 500 feet, and form one of the most beautiful prospects to be met with on the Lower Mississippi." [5] Vicksburg itself was known as Walnut Hills in early days (from about 1806), because "When the first settlers arrived the hills on which the city now ...
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.
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It is located about 20 miles southwest of Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. The island is approximately 30,000 acres (120 km 2) in size depending on the level of the Mississippi River. It was formerly a peninsula known as Davis Bend, with an 11,000 acres (45 km 2) area of rich bottomlands, bounded on three sides by the Mississippi River. [1]
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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Vicksburg and elsewhere in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map ...