In April 1898, Vicksburg’s opera house burned, leaving the city without a play house. The Vicksburg Dispatch reported that “many first-class theatrical companies will soon be...
1117 Washington Street, a commercial building on the east side of the street between Grove and China streets, was built about 1902 and occupied by Lowenthal...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — The U. S. Marine Hospital at Vicksburg was located at 500 Speed Street from 1856 to 1895. In 1836, Congress passed a bill...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — Vicksburg Library– When the new City Hall was completed in 1903, the Vicksburg Library Association established a library of sorts on the third...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — In 1897, forty-seven members of First Baptist Church withdrew and organized a new congregation that they named Calvary. They met in a building...
