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The house was first declared a Mississippi Landmark in 2001, [1] added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, [2] and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The house was restored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History .
Location of Jackson County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jackson County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Jackson, Mississippi" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The archaeological site, dated between 1700 and 1100 B.C.E. and designated as a national landmark in 1962, contains hand-made earthen mounds and ridges overlooking the Mississippi River flood plain.
Medgar Evers Historic District is a U.S. historic district and residential neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi. The neighborhood contains the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument , the former home of African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925–1963).
The Kaniya Fobs House stands in northern Jackson, in what is called the Elraine Subdivision. This area was developed as the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. The house is on the north side of Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, a few doors east of its junction with Missouri Street.
From 1839 until 1903, as Mississippi's statehouse, the old capitol was the site of several historical legislative events: [5] Passage of the Married Women's Property Act, the first law in any state to allow married women to independently own property, in 1839. [7] Passage of an ordinance of secession in 1861. Constitutional Convention of 1865.
There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".