By Nancy Bell, Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation. St. Paul’s Rectory, located on the north side of Crawford Street between Washington and Walnut streets, was built...
The African-American monument, erected in the Vicksburg National Military Park, symbolizes the importance of African-American soldiers during the Civil War. The monument was sculpted by Dr....
By Nancy Bell, Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation The three-story Greek Revival building that would become the Vicksburg Infirmary was constructed in 1869 on the southwest...
by Nancy Bell, Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation Until 1903, this building, in the middle of Monroe Street, served as Vicksburg’s City Hall and housed the...
The Vicksburg Civil War Museum at 1123 Washington Street will have its grand opening on Saturday, May 15 at 10:00 a.m. The new museum is owned...
The Governor’s Mansion will reopen for guided tours beginning the first of April. On April 1, the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is opening up its historic section...
Two historic Vicksburg properties are among several across Mississippi that will benefit from Mississippi Department of Archives and History grants. At its regular meeting Jan. 22,...
Peggy Schaeffer has always had a love for her family, history, old homes and Christmas. So when she moved to Vicksburg from Huntsville, Texas, in 1987,...
Most everyone called him Doc, but he was George Ferdinand Smith and was the 22nd veterinarian in the state of Mississippi. His stories were legend, and...
The scene was reminiscent of one that would have appeared in “Gone with the Wind.” Union soldiers invaded a home, had words with the owner, speaking...
