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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The historic Turkey Creek community is surrounded by large urban developments that include the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport to the south, U.S. Route 49 to the west, and an industrial seaway on the north. [3] The Historic District is a residential area situated along Rippy Road and is associated with freshwater marsh and coastal ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [3] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [4]
West Beach Historic District: May 18, 1984 : Roughly U.S. Route 90 between Rosell and Chalmers Avenue: Biloxi: View is within Old Biloxi Cemetery 53: West Central Historic District: West Central Historic District: May 18, 1984
The use of the plantation, with more than 1,000 acres, was given to Jefferson Davis by his much older brother, Joseph Emory Davis (1784-1870); it had previously been a part of Joseph Davis's much larger Hurricane Plantation, which it adjoined on a bend of the Mississippi River twenty miles from Vicksburg.
There are 40 National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. Five of these are also State Historic Sites. For consistency, the sites are named here as designated under the National Historic Landmark program. A cross-reference list of all seven State Historic Sites is provided further below, which uses different names for some sites.
Osage Farms Unit No. 26 Historic District: September 27, 1991 : MO D near junction with High Point Rd. Hughesville: 19: Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District: Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District: September 27, 1991
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]