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- VICK_070126_001.JPG: Warren County Courthouse
Built entirely by slave labor and completed in 1858, the Warren County Courthouse was the most prominent structure in Vicksburg during the Civil War. The Confederate flag which flew from the cupola during the siege was visible from almost any point along the Union lines around the city. To protect the building from Federal artillery fire, Northern prisoners were housed in the upstairs courtroom and used as human shields. Today, the building houses a museum featuring unique displays on the Civil War and other aspects of Vicksburg history.
The museum is open daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
Old Court House Museum
- VICK_070126_002.JPG: Warren County Courthouse
- VICK_070126_006.JPG: South Central Bell
1881 - 1981
The first telephone exchange in Mississippi was installed in Vicksburg, January 10, 1881, at 102 ½ North Washington Street, by the Louisiana Telephone Company, a predecessor of South Central Bell.
- VICK_070126_012.JPG: Old Natchez District
Ceded by Choctaws & Chickasaws in Fort Adams Treaty, 1801, confirming earlier British treaty. Contained most of present Warren, Jefferson, Claiborn, Adams, Franklin, Wilkinson & Amite counties.
- VICK_070126_014.JPG: Vicksburg
Founded 1820 and named for the Rev. Newitt Vick. Was originally site of Spanish Ft. Nogales. Later was US Ft. McHenry. On July 4, 1863 the city surrendered to Gen. Grant
- VICK_070126_027.JPG: Jefferson Davis
On Nov. 5, 1943, Jefferson Davis, a local planter, launched his political career on Court Square, when he made a speech in a last-minute race for the State Legislature. Though he lost the election, he later served in Congress, the Mexican War, as Secretary of War in the Senate, and as President of the Confederate States of America.
"He stepped forth to take his place in the world of action--the best equipped, most thoroughly trained, most perfectly poised man who had ever entered the arena of American politics."
--Thomas Dixon
In memory of Charles Johnson Faulk, Jr. and V. Blaine Russell
Vicksburg Journalists and Historians
June 3, 1993
- VICK_070126_030.JPG: Court Square:
When Rev. Newet Vick founded Vicksburg in 1819, he designated this city block as a public square, and after the city was incorporated and became county seat in 1825, a court house was built on the site: it burned in 1856 and the present structure was erected. It was here that Federal soldiers lowered the Confederate flag and raised the Union banner on July 4, 1863, and Gen. U.S. Grant reviewed his victorious army. Many famous Americans have spoken on Court Square, including Zachary Taylor, William McKinley, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt. The building was abandoned as a court house in 1939 and became a museum on June 3, 1948, under the leadership of Mrs. Eva Whitaker Davis and the Vicksburg and Warren County Historical Society.
- VICK_070126_037.JPG: St. Pierre was a French fort from 1719-1729 on the Yazoo River about ten miles north of Vicksburg. The name was derived from a mission begun in the area in 1698, which was the first European settlement in Mississippi. No visible signs of St. Pierre, which is on private property, remain.
- VICK_070126_049.JPG: Soldiers
WE were that which others did not want to be. We went where others feared to go, and did what others failed to do. We were....
American Soldiers
This monument is dedicated to the honor of the men of
Company B
106th Engineer (Combat) Battalion
31st Infantry (Dixie) Division
Mississippi National Guard
A unit of Vicksburg and Warren County soldiers that served with distinction during World War II from Nov. 1940 through Dec. 1945.
Erected by: Co. B 106th Engineers Associated
Dedicated Nov. 28, 1992
- VICK_070126_078.JPG: 901, 905, 913 Crawford Street
Middle house constructed ca. 1830 by John Lane, a member of Vicksburg's founding family. Flanking Italianate townhouses constructed ca. 1872: 901 by a niece of Jeff. Davis; 913 by Judge Upton Young.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History 1982
- VICK_070126_079.JPG: Balfour House
Built mid-1830s. Home of Emma Balfour, noted diarist of the Siege. Site of 1862 Christmas ball interrupted by arrival of Federal fleet.
Following surrender, July 4, 1863, was HQ. of Maj.-Gen. J.B. McPherson.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History 1978
- VICK_070126_083.JPG: Balfour House
- VICK_070126_100.JPG: Pemberton Headquarters
(Willis-Cowan House)
Built ca. 1835. Military headquarters of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, who commanded the Confederate forces during the siege of Vicksburg. Here on July 3, 1863, the decision was made to surrender the city.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History 1973
- VICK_070126_101.JPG: Pemberton Headquarters
- VICK_070126_110.JPG: Cobb House
- Wikipedia Description: Vicksburg, Mississippi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles (377 km) north by west of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, and 40 miles (65 km) due west of Jackson, the state capital. In 1900, 14,834 people lived in Vicksburg; in 1910, 20,814; in 1920, 17,931; and in 1940, 24,460. The population was 26,407 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Warren County. ...
History:
Incorporated in 1825, Vicksburg was created from the community of Walnut Hills and named after Newitt Vick, a Methodist minister and conscientious objector to the American Revolution.
During the American Civil War, Vicksburg was the site of the Siege of Vicksburg, a significant event in which the Union gained control of the entire Mississippi River. The 47-day Siege of Vicksburg was required to starve the city into submission, for its location atop a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River proved impregnable to assault by federal troops. The capture of Vicksburg and the simultaneous defeat of Lee at Gettysburg marked the turning point in the American Civil War.
Because of the city's location on the Mississippi River, its reputation in the nineteenth century often rested on the river's prodigious steamboat traffic. Between 1881 and 1894, the Anchor Line, a prominent steamboat company operating on the Mississippi River from 1859 to 1898, operated a steamboat called the City of Vicksburg, named for the city. In 1876 a Mississippi River flood cut off the large meander flowing past Vicksburg leaving access to the new channel limited. The United States Army Corps of Engineers diverted the Yazoo River in 1903 into the old, shallowing channel to rejuvenate the waterfront. Railroad access to the west was by transfer steamers and ferry barges until a combination railroad and highway bridge was built in 1929. This is the only Mississippi River rail crossing between Baton Rouge and Memphis and the only highway crossing between Natchez and Greenville. Interstate 20 bridged the River in 1969 and freight rail traffic still crosses by the old bridge. North-South transportation links are by the Mississippi River and U.S. Highway 61.
The historic Mississippi River Commission Building in Vicksburg, constructed in 1894
The historic Mississippi River Commission Building in Vicksburg, constructed in 1894
On 12 March 1894, the popular soft drink Coca-Cola was bottled for the first time in Vicksburg by Joseph Biedenharn, a local confectioner. Today, surviving nineteenth-century Biedenharn soda bottles are prized by collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia. The location of Coke's first bottling has been preserved by the Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation as the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum and features a reproduction of the first equipment used to bottle Coca-Cola as well as a large collection of Coca-Cola memorbilia. The museum is open daily.
Willie Dixon was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 1, 1915. Muddy Waters was born a few miles north in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1915.
Vicksburg served as the primary refugee gathering point and temporary housing during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which submerged an area of the Mississippi Delta nearly the size of New England. That Flood was the impetus towards establishment of the United States Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station as the primary hydraulics laboratory to develop protection from the River. That establishment, now known as the Engineer Research and Development Center, works in the areas of military engineering, information technology, environmental engineering, hydraulic engineering, and geotechnical engineering.
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