21 places found

Ellisville, Mississippi
Visitors, DAR members and local news have reported rocking chairs that rock on their own, footsteps like heavy boots walking through the…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
Cedar Grove is an antebellum mansion in Vicksburg that now operates as an inn and is regularly named among the most haunted places to stay…

Madison, Mississippi
The Chapel of the Cross, in the Mannsdale community near Madison, is an Episcopal church of Gothic Revival design built around 1850 to 1852…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
The Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg was built in 1856 and has served as a family home, a Confederate and Union hospital during the 1863…

Natchez, Mississippi
Dunleith is a Greek Revival mansion in Natchez, surrounded on all sides by columns like a classical temple. The current house was built…

Columbus, Mississippi
Friendship Cemetery in Columbus is a historic burial ground best known as the setting of the 1866 Decoration Day, when local women…

Meridian, Mississippi
The Grand Opera House in downtown Meridian opened in 1890, closed in 1927 and stood vacant for decades before a restoration reopened it in…

Natchez, Mississippi
King's Tavern in Natchez is considered the oldest standing building in the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.…

Natchez, Mississippi
Linden is one of the oldest houses in Natchez, begun in 1785 and expanded by a series of owners, and it has been home to the Conner family…

Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez lore says Haller Nutt's presence is still felt on the upper floors of Longwood he never saw completed, along with the faint…

Tupelo, Mississippi
The Lyric Theatre in downtown Tupelo opened in 1912 as the Comus Theatre. On April 5, 1936, a tornado destroyed much of Tupelo and the…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
McRaven is one of the oldest houses in Vicksburg, built in stages from 1797 and added to in the 1830s and 1849. During the 1863 siege it…

Meridian, Mississippi
Merrehope began in 1858 as a small cottage and grew into a mansion that served as the headquarters of General Leonidas Polk during…

Biloxi, Mississippi
The Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center is a large arena and convention complex on the Gulf Coast in Biloxi, with…

Columbus, Mississippi
Mississippi University for Women, known as The W, was the first state-supported women's college in the United States. Its best-known campus…

Lorman, Mississippi
Rodney was a busy Mississippi River port founded in 1828 that lost out when a sandbar moved the river miles away in the 1860s, then lost…

Oxford, Mississippi
Rowan Oak is the Greek Revival house in Oxford where William Faulkner lived from 1930 until his death in 1962, now a museum run by the…

Pascagoula, Mississippi
The Pascagoula River is known as the Singing River for a low humming sound that people report hearing near it, especially on still…

Meridian, Mississippi
Stuckey's Bridge crosses the Chunky River in rural Lauderdale County, near Meridian and Enterprise. The 112-foot iron truss bridge dates to…

Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the battlefield of the 47-day Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, one of the turning points of the Civil…

West Point, Mississippi
Waverley is a National Historic Landmark house near West Point, built in 1852 by Colonel George Hampton Young on a cotton plantation of…