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The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is home to museum exhibits on the culture and history of America's rivers. The campus also includes over a dozen aquariums featuring wildlife representative of that found in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and other river systems and deltas, including giant catfish, sturgeon, ducks, frogs, turtles, rays, octopodes, river otters, and ...
December 1, 1997. Roosevelt State Park is a public recreation area located off Interstate 20 on the southwest side of Morton, Mississippi. The state park surrounds 150-acre (61 ha) Shadow Lake at the western edge of Bienville National Forest, between Jackson and Meridian. It is managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Casey Jones State Park. Fort Maurepas State Park. Grand Gulf Military Monument Park, Port Gibson. Gulf Marine State Park. Nanih Waiya State Park, transferred to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw 2006. Sam Dale State Park. Winterville Mounds, 1960–2000, transferred to Department of Archives and History.
Mississippi Aquarium is a nonprofit [5] public aquarium located in Gulfport, Mississippi; it opened August 29, 2020. [6] The 5.8-acre (2.3 ha) complex incorporates both indoor and outdoor habitats with more than 200 species of animals and 50 species of native plants. Construction costs were paid through federal, state, local, and private ...
JAKE OFFENHARTZ. August 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of longtime Brooklyn residents were lounging in the heat last week, staring at a sidewalk tree pit often flooded by a leaky ...
NRHP reference No. 97001437. Added to NRHP. December 1, 1997. Wall Doxey State Park is a public recreation area located off Mississippi Highway 7, seven miles (11 km) south of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The state park is centered on 60-acre (24 ha) Spring Lake. [3] It is named for white Democrat politician Wall Doxey.
The park features boating, swimming, waterskiing and fishing on 550-acre (220 ha) Lake Lincoln, overnight camping, as well as day-use. Park amenities include recreational vehicle camping, vacation cabins and cottages, beach, picnic area with shelters, nature trail, playground, playing fields, boat launch, laundry facilities, disc golf, and worship services.
Gulf Islands National Seashore. Gulf Islands National Seashore is an American National seashore that offers recreation opportunities and preserves natural and historic resources along the Gulf of Mexico barrier islands of Florida and Mississippi. In 2023, it was the fifth-most visited unit of the National Park Service.