This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. It includes current National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), and also National Park Service areas in Mississippi that overlap.
Key
National Historic LandmarkNational Historic Landmark DistrictNational Historic Site, National Historical Park, National Memorial, or National MonumentDelisted Landmark
List
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. The NHLs are concentrated in 17 of Mississippi's 82 counties. Thirteen are in Adams County alone.
Former NHLs in Mississippi
There have been no de-designations of Mississippi NHLs,NHL de-designations but one NHL object has been moved out of the state and was subsequently delisted:
Landmark name. ImageDate designatedDate withdrawnLocalityCountyDescription Retrieved on various dates. President (Steamboat) Vicksburg Warren This steamboat plied the Mississippi River watershed after her construction in 1924. In 2009 she was disassembled and transported overland to St. Elmo, Illinois. This loss of historical integrity prompted the National Park Service to withdraw her landmark designation.
National Park Service areas in Mississippi National Historic Parks, National Battlefields, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are five of these in Mississippi. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state.These are listed on p.113 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State," November 2007 version. They are:
Landmark nameImageDate establishedDate of listing as National Historical Park or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.Location County Description Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site Natchez National Historical Park Shiloh National Military Park (shared with Tennessee) Tupelo National Battlefield Vicksburg National Military Park Includes Vicksburg National Cemetery; shared with Louisiana.
See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi List of National Historic Landmarks by state List of National Natural Landmarks in Mississippi
References
External links
National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service National Park Service listings of National Historic Landmarks