About Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg is a city of 21,573 people and the seat of Warren County, set high on bluffs above the Mississippi River and facing Louisiana. The Natchez people lived here long before Europeans came. In 1790 the Spanish built a military post on the site and called it Fort Nogales, for its walnut trees, and when the Americans took over in 1798 they renamed it Walnut Hills. Newitt Vick, a Methodist minister, started a Protestant mission there, and the village took his name when it was incorporated in 1825.

Steamboats stopped here to load cotton from the surrounding counties, and Vicksburg soon became the second-largest community in Mississippi, behind only Natchez. That position made it vital in the Civil War. Union attacks failed in the summer of 1862, so Ulysses S. Grant planned a longer campaign, and after a 47-day siege Confederate General John C. Pemberton gave up the city. Union troops marched in on July 4, 1863, one day after Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg, and the two events are remembered as the war's turning point.

“Vicksburg is the key.”
Mississippi Encyclopedia
  • Coca-Cola's first bottlesOn March 12, 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, a Vicksburg candy maker, put Coca-Cola into bottles for the first time. His old soda bottles from the 1800s are now prized by collectors, and his candy store has been restored as the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum. The Biedenharn Candy Company Building joined the National Register in 1977.
  • The river moved away in 1876Steamboat trade made Vicksburg rich, but in 1876 a flood cut through De Soto Point and moved the Mississippi's channel away from the city, leaving only an oxbow lake. Without a working port, business suffered. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers turned the Yazoo River into the old channel, and when its Yazoo Diversion Canal was finished in 1903, Vicksburg was a river town again. The Corps still runs three large installations in the city.
  • More than 1,300 monumentsAfter the siege, Vicksburg became a place to remember the soldiers. The federal government opened a national cemetery for Union dead here in 1865, and Soldiers' Rest grew into the largest Confederate burial ground in Mississippi. In 1899 Congress created the Vicksburg National Military Park, where more than 1,300 monuments mark moments in the campaign.
  • A Jewish congregation since 1841About twenty of the 3,000 people in the town at its 1825 incorporation were Jewish immigrants from Bavaria, Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine. Mississippi's second Jewish congregation began here in 1841, and in 1862 fifty Jewish families organized the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Anshe Chesed and won a state charter. The Anshe Chesed Cemetery followed in 1864, the second Jewish cemetery in the city.

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Places and landmarks15

  • Vicksburg City Hall
  • Warrenton Heights
  • Warrenton
  • Cedars
  • Bellemeade
  • Jetts
  • Jonestown
  • Kings
  • Lakewood
  • Porters Chapel
  • Signal
  • Speeds Addition
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  • Stout
  • Valley Mills
  • Waltersville

Streets and roads117

  • Clay Street
  • North Washington Street
  • Old Highway 61
  • Washington Street
  • Hill Road
  • Lee Street
  • Pearl Street
  • Drummond Street
  • Village Street
  • Halls Ferry Road
  • Porters Chapel Road
  • Haining Road
  • Warrenton Road
  • Kings Point Ferry Road
  • Wisconsin Avenue
  • Mission 66
  • Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
  • Cherry Street
  • Sky Farm Avenue
  • Grove Street
  • Indiana Avenue
  • Belva Drive
  • Pemberton Square Boulevard
  • Iowa Boulevard
  • East Main Street
  • Locust Street
  • South Street
  • Grange Hall Road
  • Redbone Road
  • Kemp Bottom Road
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  • Walnut Street
  • East Avenue
  • Old Highway 27
  • Bellaire Drive
  • Hall Road
  • Military Avenue
  • Dana Road
  • Industrial Drive
  • Lovers Lane
  • Longview Street
  • Alfred Drive
  • Polk Street
  • Wells Road
  • Miller Street
  • Confederate Avenue
  • Union Avenue
  • Oak Street
  • Levee Street
  • Cain Ridge Road
  • Long Lake Road
  • Rifle Range Road
  • Iowa Avenue
  • Fort Hill Drive
  • Old Cain Ridge Road
  • Hutson Street
  • Standard Hill Road
  • Linda Drive
  • Vicklan Street
  • Kendra Drive
  • Fisher Ferry Road
  • Singing Hills Road
  • Summit Ridge Drive
  • Buena Vista Drive
  • Dorsey Street
  • Sherman Avenue
  • John Allen Street
  • Magnolia Road
  • Ford Road
  • Signal Hill Lane
  • Melrose Avenue
  • Holly Ridge Drive
  • Sky Vale Drive
  • Hullum Road
  • Willow Drive
  • Berryman Road
  • Hills of the Valley
  • Highland Drive
  • Country Club Drive
  • Riley Road
  • Hilda Drive
  • Buck Street
  • Cedars Road
  • Court Street
  • Hill Street
  • First Avenue
  • Old Highway 80
  • Bazinsky Road
  • Alcorn Drive
  • Lakewood Road
  • Demby Drive
  • Maison Rue
  • Enchanted Drive
  • Falk Steel Road
  • Wilbert Lane
  • Beechwood Road
  • Army Navy Drive
  • City Park Road
  • Cottage Row Drive
  • Knox Drive
  • Tate Street
  • Marian Lane
  • Lum Road
  • Alma Street
  • Irene Street
  • North Frontage Road
  • Baldwin Ferry Road
  • Tennessee Road
  • Ameristar
  • Roseland Drive
  • Hope Street
  • Riverview Drive
  • Lane Street
  • Belmont Street
  • Coast Guard Road
  • Rubber Way
  • Capri Drive
  • Briar Lane

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