Aaron Cotton Company
311 Delta Avenue
Clarksdalle,
MS
38614
662-902-9069
Visit the Cotton Museum and learn about the history of cotton and the crops relationship to Blues music.
Ahern's Belle of the Bends Tour Home (Circa 1876)
Open daily 10:00 am – Noon; 1:30 pm –4:30 pm (please call first).Approximately 30-minute tour.
This breathtaking Italianate mansion sits atop a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and is one of Mississippi’s best preserved historical homes. It showcases beautiful oval, arched woodwork and trim and intricate Bavarian plaster a...
Anchuca Historic Mansion and Inn Tour Home (Circa 1830)
1010 First East Street
Vicksburg,
MS
39180
6016610111
888-686-0111
anchuca.com
The place to “B&B,” this charming escape offers luxurious comfort in a relaxed setting and some of the best food in town. Our guest rooms are beautifully decorated and feature 100% cotton linens, Gilchrest & Soames toiletries, private baths, cable television, and WiFi. Your stay includes a full plantation style breakfast and tou...
Anshe Chesed Cemetery
Clay Street at National Military Park
Vicksburg,
MS
39183
Access at Grove and Hope Streets, traffic light #10.
Public access except on Saturday.
Evidence of a once robust Jewish community, the cemetery dates back to 1864. A lunette fortification was built on the property by the Confederacy. On May 19 and 22, 1863, it was the site of fierce fighting and bloodshed. In 1864, t...
B. B. King Birthplace Blues Trail Marker
Berclair (Leflore County),
MS
The long and remarkable life of B. B. King began near this site, where he was born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925. His parents, Albert and Nora Ella King, were sharecropers who lived in a simple home southeast of here along Bear Creek. After his parents separated when he was four, King lived in Kilmichael and Lexington before moving as a tee...
Baer House Inn Tour Home (Circa 1849-1870)
To schedule a tour please call in advance. Tours last between 30-45 minutes. A charming bed and breakfast retreat, this exquisite example of Eastlake Victorian was built in 1870 by Lazarus Baer for his wife Leona. The home features handcrafted American chestnut and black walnut detailed woodwork. On each side of the entry are the original...
Bazsinsky House Tour Home
Open every day at any reasonable time for tours. Appointments/Reservations requested and recommended. Tours $5 per person. Two conflicting stories, one a fifty-three page handwritten family history, the other a researched account of documented events, address the property from as early as 1840. Both conclue that the majestic structure, bu...
Belmont Plantation - Wayside (Drive - By Only)
Highway 1 South
Greenville,
MS
38701
One of the few antebellum homes in the Mississippi Delta to escape burning by Union forces during the Civil War, Belmont was built circa 1857 by W.W. Worthington. In 1946, Mississippi Governor Dennis Murphree founded Belmont Hunting Lodge, and today the property is a private residence.
Bethel AME Church
805 Monroe Street
Vicksburg,
MS
39180
601-636-5777
601-634-0610
The first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Mississippi and the first Masonic Lodge in Mississippi were organized here in 1875. In 1890, Campbell College, the first African American College in Mississippi was established without the aid of whites, operated out of a building behind Bethel. The college moved to Jackson, MS in 1897 and was absorbe...
Beulah Cemetery
Martin Luther King Blvd.
- Off Jackson Rd.
Vicksburg,
MS
39183
The only African American cemetery in Vicksburg established by the Vicksburg Tabernacle #19 Independent Order of Brothers and Sisters of Love and Charity around 1884. The final resting place for members of some of the prominent African American families in Vicksburg's history and tehre are more than 5,500 graves scattered across the grassy tree-stu...