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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 ...
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).
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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.
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.
County # of Sites 1 Adams: 125 2 Alcorn: 21 3 Amite: 19 4 Attala: 20 5 Benton: 1 6 Bolivar: 16 7 Calhoun: 2 8 Carroll: 13 9 Chickasaw: 10 10 Choctaw: 5 11 Claiborne
The Eudora Welty House & Garden, at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, was the home of author Eudora Welty for nearly 80 years. It was built by her parents in 1925. [ 4 ] Welty and her mother built and tended to the garden located at the side and back of the home over decades.
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.