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40 Mississippi National Historic Landmarks

Ammadelle (Oxford) - 10/13/2017
Built in 1859, this is an Italianate mansion designed by Calvert Vaux, which he regarded as one of his finest works

Auburn (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
An antebellum mansion, designed and constructed by Levi Weeks in 1812, and the first building to exhibit Greek Revival order in the town

Champion Hill Battlefield - 5/1/2023
The May 16, 1863 battle was pivotal in the Vicksburg Campaign of the Civil War, where the Army of the Tennessee pursued and defeated the retreating Confederate States Army

Charles Mclaren House (Columbus) - 5/1/2023
Built in 1847 for a major local landowner, it is a distinctive and particularly grand and well-preserved example of Greek Revival architecture

Commercial Bank and Banker’s House (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
Built-in 1833, it is an unusual combination Greek Revival building, housing both a bank premises and the principal banker's residence

Dancing Rabbit Treaty Site - 5/1/2023
A Choctaw Native American gathering place located near a freshwater spring above the floodplain of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and site of an 1830 treaty negotiation with the federal government

Dunleith (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
An 1855 antebellum mansion that is Mississippi's only surviving example of a plantation house with a fully encircling colonnade of Greek Revival columns

Emerald Mound Site (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
A Mississippian period archaeological site and the type site for the Emerald Phase (1500 to 1680 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture

Eudora Welty House (Jackson) - 10/14/2017
The Tudor Revival-style home for nearly 80 years of the short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South

Fort St. Pierre Site - 4/30/2023
A 1719 colonial French fortified outpost on the Yazoo River, the northernmost outpost of French Louisiana and destroyed in 1729 by Native Americans

Grand Village of the Natchez (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
The site encompasses a prehistoric indigenous village, including earthwork mounds, and archaeological site of the 1200 CE Plaquemine culture and their descendants the Natchez

Hester Site (Amory) - 5/1/2023
A major multicomponent prehistoric archaeological site whose major occupation took place during the Archaic period with artifacts dating from 9000 to 8000 BCE

Highland Park Dentzel Carousel and Shelter Building (Meridian) - 10/14/2017
Manufactured about 1896 for the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, the carousel has been in operation since 1909 and it is the only remaining two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in the world

Holly Bluff Site (Holly Bluff) - 4/30/2023
An archaeological site that is a type site for the Lake George phase of the prehistoric Plaquemine culture period of the area

House on Ellicott’s Hill (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
The 1798 house is important as a grand and rare surviving example of an early vernacular building form once typical of the Lower Mississippi Valley

I. T. Montgomery House (Mound Bayou) - 4/29/2023
The 1910 home of the former slave of Jefferson Davis who was instrumental in founding Mound Bayou, one of the first successful towns established by freed slaves

Jaketown Site (Belzoni) - 4/30/2023
An archaeological site with two prehistoric earthwork mounds, important as a trade center of the Poverty Point culture in the Archaic period, and long human occupation

Longwood (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
Also known as Nutt's Folly, this is an historic 1859 antebellum octagonal mansion built in part by enslaved people for cotton planter Haller Nutt

Lucius Q. C. Lamar House (Oxford) - 10/13/2017
Significant as the 1869-1888 home of the Congressman and U.S. cabinet member who symbolized the South's post-war regained political respectability

Lyceum - The Circle (Oxford) - 10/13/2017
The district contains eight academic buildings arranged on University Circle, significant for its association with the Civil Rights Movement during the Ole Miss riot of 1962

Medgar and Myrlie Evers House (Jackson) - 10/14/2017
This was the home of the civil rights activists from 1956 to 1963, when Medgar was killed by a sniper in the carport

Melrose (Natchez) - 9/29/1997
Built by the John T. McMurran family beginning in 1841, the Greek revival-style mansion represents the height of Southern prosperity and the "Cotton Kingdom."

Mississippi Governor’s Mansion (Jackson) - 10/14/2017
Completed in 1841, this prominent example of Greek Revival architecture is the official residence of the Governor of Mississippi

Mississippi State Capitol (Jackson) - 10/14/2017
The home of Mississippi's state legislature since 1903, the Beaux-Arts architectural style building is the third capitol building in Jackson

Monmouth (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
An historic 1818 antebellum home built by John Hankinson, and one of Natchez's grandest Greek Revival mansions

Oakland Memorial Chapel (Lorman) - 5/1/2023
An historic church and academic building on the campus of Alcorn University, the first land grant university for black Americans

Old Mississippi State Capitol (Jackson) - 10/14/2017
Served as the Mississippi statehouse from 1839 until 1903, when the current capitol building was completed

Pemberton’s Headquarters (Vicksburg) - 4/30/2023
Built in 1836, it served as the headquarters for Confederate General John C. Pemberton during most of the 47-day siege of Vicksburg

Port Gibson Battle Site - 5/1/2023
The site where the 1863 battle was fought, where Union Army forces were establishing a beachhead after crossing the Mississippi River in a bid to take the Confederate fortress of Vicksburg

Rocket Propulsion Test Complex - 9/28/1984
A rocket testing complex built in 1965 which played an important role in the development of the Saturn V rocket

Rosalie(Natchez) - 4/30/2023
An historic 1823 mansion that served as the architectural inspiration for a large number of Natchez's grand Greek Revival mansions

Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites (Corinth) - 10/15/2017
This district encompasses surviving elements of three significant Civil War engagements in and near Corinth, MS and at Davis Bridge in TN

Stanton Hall (Natchez) - 4/30/2023
An 1851 antebellum Classical Revival mansion built for Frederick Stanton, a cotton broker, as a replica of his ancestral home in Ireland

Waverly (Waverly) - 5/1/2023
Formerly a plantation house built in 1838, it is architecturally unique among Mississippi's antebellum mansions for its enormous octagonal cupola

Warren County Courthouse (Vicksburg) - 4/30/2023
The building stands prominently on a hill and was a symbol of Confederate resistance during the Siege of Vicksburg

William Faulkner House (Oxford) - 10/13/2017
The 1840s primitive Greek Revival house was purchased and renovated by the author in the 1930s

Winterville Site (Winterville) - 4/29/2023
An archaeological site including more than twelve large platform mounds from 1200-1400 and type site for the Plaquemine Mississippian culture