A Mississippi Landmark is a building officially nominated by the

Mississippi Department of Archives and History Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) is a state agency founded in 1902. It is the official archive of the Mississippi Government. Location The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is located at 200 North St., Jackson, ...

and approved by each county's chancery clerk. The Mississippi Landmark designation is the highest form of recognition bestowed on properties by the state of Mississippi, and designated properties are protected from changes that may alter the property's historic character. Currently there are 890 designated landmarks in the state. Mississippi Landmarks are spread out between eighty-one of Mississippi's eighty-two counties; only Issaquena County has no such landmarks. __NOTOC__ In October 2011, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History removed the .pdf listing fro
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and enter desired city or county. Following are the properties listed as landmarks by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History as of August 2009.

Adams

* Adams County Courthouse * Adams County Jail *

Assembly Hall An assembly hall is a hall to hold public meetings or meetings of an organization such as a school, church, or deliberative assembly. An example of the last case is the Assembly Hall (Washington, Mississippi) where the general assembly of the s ...

* Auburn **Auburn Barn and Carriage House **Billiard Hall **Dairy **Kitchen/Service Wing * Carmel Presbyterian Church * Carpenter School No. 1 * Carpenter School No. 2 * Neibert-Fisk House * Britton & Koontz National Bank * Brumfield High School *

Commercial Building Commercial may refer to: * (adjective for) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and services ** (adjective for) trade, the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money * a dose of advertising ...

* Glencannon (also Glenfield) * Grand Village of the Natchez * House on Ellicott's Hill * Illinois Central Railroad Freight Depot * Jefferson College **

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** President's House **

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* William Johnson House * Laurel Hill Plantation **

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Carriage House A ''carriage house'', also called a ''remise'' or ''coach house'', is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. Carriage houses were often two ...

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** Eastern Dependency **

Parsonage A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, pa ...

** St. Mary's Chapel ** Western Dependency * Longwood * Henderson-Britton House (also Magnolia Hall) * Margaret Martin High School (also Old Natchez High School) designed by Penn Jeffries Krouse * Institute Hall (also Memorial Hall) * James Andrews House * Lawyer's Lodge * Linton House *

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* Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture (Natchez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture / NAPAC Museum) (also Old U.S. Post Office) * Natchez Bluffs and Under-the-Hill Historic District ** Little Mexico Property * Natchez City Park (also The Esplanade) * Natchez City Hall *Natchez College **

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** Women's Auxiliary Building * Natchez Institute * Prince Street School * Sadie V. Thompson School * Selma Plantation House * Smart-Griffin House (also Angeletty House) * Stanton Hall * Palestine Road Sites * Presbyterian Manse (also The Manse) * Temple B'nai Israel * Washington Blocks 4 and 5

Alcorn

* Corinth Clothing Manufacturing Company Building * Alcorn County Courthouse * B.F. Liddon House *Civil War Battlefield Properties **

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** Briggs Property **

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** Burns Property ** Corona Female College ** James Crabb Property ** Ruby Lee Crabb Property ** Derrick Property ** David Essary Property ** Dwayne Essary Property ** Gerald Essary Property **

Ginn Property Ginn or GINN may refer to: *Ginn, a List of Stargate Universe characters#Ginn, character appearing in the television series ''Stargate Universe'' *Ginn & Co., an imprint of Pearson Education *Ginn & Co Solicitors, a UK law firm *Ginn and Company, ...

** Glisson Property ** Goodrum Property ** Griffin Property **

Johnson Property Johnson may refer to: People and fictional characters *Johnson (surname), a common surname in English *Johnson (given name), a list of people * List of people with surname Johnson, including fictional characters *Johnson (composer) (1953–2011), ...

** Kanady Property ** Rowland Property ** Steen Property ** Voyles Property ** Wilbanks Property ** William H. Davis Jr. Property * Clinton Robert Whitaker Property (also Theresa Christine Whitaker Madlinger Property) *

Coliseum Theatre The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St Martin's Lane, Westminster, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious "family" variety theatres. Opened on 24 December 1904 as the London Coliseum Theatre ...

*Corinth Battlefield ** Union Battery F ** Battery Robinette ** Union Siege Lines (Sherman & Davies) * Corinth Depot * Corinth Junior High School * Liddon Building (405 Cruise St) * Liddon Building (407 Cruise St) * Liddon Building (409 Cruise St) *Glendale School ** Glendale School Gymnasium ** Teacher's House (Glendale School) * Jacinto Courthouse * Jacinto Doctor's Office * Veranda House (also Curlee House)

Amite

* Amite County Courthouse * Confederate Monument * Amite Female Seminary * Beech Grove (Thomas Batchelor House), Street community *Sherman Line School (Rosenwald), near Mixon

Attala

* Attala County Courthouse * Kosciuscko City Hall (also Old U.S. Post Office) * Mary Ricks Thornton Cultural Center (also Old First Presbyterian Church)

Benton

* Benton County Courthouse

Bolivar

* Amzie Moore House * Bolivar County Courthouse (701 Main St) * Bolivar County Courthouse (200 Court St South) *Cassity Hall at Delta State University *Cleveland High School, Cleveland Consolidated School complex * Cleveland Police Department (also

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) * Dedwyler Memorial Building (also Bolivar County Health Department) *Delta State University ** Bailey Hall **

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** Cleveland Hall ** Faculty House ** Fielding Wright Art Center ** Old President's House ** Ward Hall ** Whitfield Gymnasium * I. T. Montgomery House * Lake Beulah Berm * Mound Bayou Bank * Old Municipal Building and Masonic Hall (also Shelby Lodge No. 478) * Rhodes Printing Company (also

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) * Rosedale City Hall *Shaw Consolidated School complex *Shaw High School Administration Building, Shaw School (White) complex *Shaw High School Gymnasium, Shaw School (White) complex * Shelby Depot * Taborian Hospital * West Bolivar High School

Calhoun

* E.L. Bruce Company General Store * New Liberty School * West Mound

Carroll

* Carroll County Courthouse * Old Carroll County Courthouse * Old Carroll County Jail * Carrollton Community House * Carrollton Livery Stable * Carrollton Town Hall * Black Hawk School * Loving-Bingham-Gee House *

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(also Carrollton Lodge No. 36) * Stanhope * Vaiden School Complex ** R.C. Weir Memorial Building (also Administration Building) ** Vocational Building *Senator J. Z. George house ("Cotesworth") *Senator J. Z. George Law Office * Vance Hotel

Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is ...

* Old Houlka School ** Administration Building * Chickasaw County Courthouse *Civil War Battlefield Properties ** Davis Property * Mississippi Hills Property * Houston Carnegie Library * Okolona Carnegie Library * Okolona College ** Okolona Hall ** Bratton Hall (also T.D. Bratton Memorial Dormitory) **

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** McDougall Hall ** Vocational Agriculture Building *Okolona Elementary School *Okolona School Lunchroom/Band Hall * R.W. Chandler House

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* Choctaw County Courthouse *Ackerman High School complex * Pinnix Hotel (also Cochran Hotel)

Claiborne

*Alcorn State University ** Belles Lettres Building ** Dormitory No. 2 ** Dormitory No. 3 **

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** Lanier Hall ** Oakland Chapel ** President's House ** Rowan Administration Building * Bernheimer Building * Chamberlin-Hunt-Guthrie Hall * Claiborne County Courthouse * Samuel Gibson House * Grand Gulf Military State Park ** Grand Gulf Military Park Cemetery ** Confederate Memorial Chapel (also Sacred Heart Catholic Church) ** Superintendent's House ** Wheeless House * Harriette Person Memorial Library * Irwin Russell Memorial Building (also Port Gibson City Hall) * Mississippi National Bank Building *Port Gibson Battlefield ** Shaifer House ** Shaifer Road * Temple Gemiluth Chessed * Value Mart Building (also Meyer-Mark Building) * Widow's Creek Bridge * Windsor Ruins

Clarke

* Chunky River Bridge * Clarke County Courthouse * Enterprise Bridge * Quitman Depot * Shubuta Bridge

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* Brogan Mound and Village Site * Administration Building * Eutaw Site * Northside School (also West Point Colored High School and Fifth Street School) * Tibbee Bridge *West Clay Agricultural High School ** Classroom Building **

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* West Point City Hall * West Point Depot * West Point Police Station (also Old U.S. Post Office) * West Point School

Coahoma

* Bobo High School (also Old Clarksdale High School) *Central Fire Station * Civic Auditorium * Clarksdale Carnegie Public Library * Clarksdale City Hall * Clarksdale Freight Depot (also Delta Blues Museum) * Clarksdale Passenger Depot *Coahoma Community College ** Tiny Tiger Daycare Center * J. W. Cutrer House designed by Bayard Snowden Cairns and built in 1916 * Old Greyhound Bus Station * Larry Thompson Center for the Fine Arts (also Paramount Theater) – A 1918 theater building designed by John Gaisford. * Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board Building

Copiah

* Copiah County Courthouse *Copiah-Lincoln Community College ** J.M. Ewing Administration Building * Gatesville Bridge * Illinois Central Depot * Homochitto River Bridge *

(also Golden Square Lodge No. 88) * Millsaps Hotel * Mount Hope * Rockport Bridge * Old Wesson Public School * William H. Holtzclaw House

Covington

* Covington County Courthouse

De Soto

* B. F. Wesson House *City Water Tower *Cockrum School in

Cockrum, Mississippi Cockrum is an unincorporated community located in Desoto County, Mississippi, United States. Cockrum is approximately north of Independence and south of Olive Branch along Mississippi Highway 305. Cockrum School is a Mississippi Landmark A M ...

* De Soto County Courthouse * Felix LaBauve House – home of the founder of university scholarships for orphans * Old Hickahala Creek Bridge

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* Administration Building (Jefferson Davis Elementary School) * Administration Building (F.B. Woodley Elementary School) * Administration Building (Forrest County Agricultural High School) *Bay Springs School * Burkett's Creek Archeological Site *Camp Shelby ** Building 1071 ** Building 6981 * Dr. J.J. Bethea House * East Forrest High School (also Leaf River High School) *

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* Eaton Elementary School (also NRHP-listed) * Eureka School * Old Federal Building and Post Office * Forrest County Courthouse * Hattiesburg City Hall * Old Hattiesburg High School * Hattiesburg Public Library * Hawkins Jr. High School * Masonic Temple (also Hattiesburg Lodge No. 397) *Pine Eagle Chapel at Camp Tiak * Saenger Theatre *

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*University of Southern Mississippi ** Print Center ** Administration Building ** Alumni House ** Bennett Auditorium ** College Hall ** Forrest County Hall ** Hattiesburg Hall ** Honor House ** Mississippi Hall ** Southern Hall * Walthall School (also Court Street School)

Franklin

* Bude Depot * Eddiceton Bridge * Franklin County Courthouse *National Guard Armory at the NW corner of Main Street & Olive Street

George

* George County Courthouse * Lucedale Schoolhouse * Merrill Bridge (also Pascagoula River Bridge) * Oak Grove Community Center (also Lucedale Colored School)

Greene

* Greene County Courthouse * Leaf River Bridge * State Line School * Vernal Community Center

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* Belle Flower Missionary Baptist Church * Chapel Hill United Methodist Church * Grenada Bank * Old U.S. Post Office * Masonic Temple (also Grenada Lodge No. 31) * Odd Fellows Cemetery and Confederate Cemetery * Wild Wings Mounds, also listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Hancock

Bay St. Louis Little Theatre ay Ice, Light, and Bottling Works (Scafide Building)* Jackson Landing Site (Mulatto Bayou) * Jackson Landing Site A * Bay St. Louis City Hall * Bay St. Louis Depot * Old Bay St. Louis High School * Gulfview School *

Hancock County Courthouse Hancock County Courthouse may refer to: * Hancock County Courthouse (Georgia), Sparta, Georgia * Hancock County Courthouse (Indiana), Greenfield, Indiana, site of some public art in Indiana * Hancock County Courthouse (Iowa), Garner, Iowa * Ha ...

* Hancock County Jail *Jourdan River School (Kiln Colored Public School) in

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, east side of Hwy 603 *Magnolia State Supply Company *McDonald House (Edwards House) *Toulme-Trawick-Phillips House (T.L. Trawick House) * Waveland Civic Center (also Old Waveland Elementary School) * Webb School

Harrison

* Beauvoir ** Confederate Cemetery ** Confederate Veterans Home Dormitories (non-extant) ** Confederate Veterans Home Hospital (non-extant) ** Hayes Cottage (non-extant) ** Beauvoir Library (non-extant) ** Manager's House (Beauvoir) (non-extant) * Biloxi City Hall (also Old U.S. Post Office, Courthouse, and Customhouse) *

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Madison County, Mississippi, Madison

Marion County, Mississippi, Marion

Marshall County, Mississippi, Marshall

Monroe County, Mississippi, Monroe

Montgomery County, Mississippi, Montgomery

Neshoba County, Mississippi, Neshoba

Newton County, Mississippi, Newton

Noxubee County, Mississippi, Noxubee

Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, Oktibbeha

Panola County, Mississippi, Panola

Pearl River County, Mississippi, Pearl River

Perry County, Mississippi, Perry

Pike County, Mississippi, Pike

Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Pontotoc

Prentiss County, Mississippi, Prentiss

Quitman County, Mississippi, Quitman

Rankin County, Mississippi, Rankin

Scott County, Mississippi, Scott

Sharkey County, Mississippi, Sharkey

Simpson County, Mississippi, Simpson

Smith County, Mississippi, Smith

Stone County, Mississippi, Stone

Sunflower County, Mississippi, Sunflower

Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Tallahatchie

Tate County, Mississippi, Tate

Tippah County, Mississippi, Tippah

Tishomingo County, Mississippi, Tishomingo

Tunica County, Mississippi, Tunica

Union County, Mississippi, Union

Walthall County, Mississippi, Walthall

Warren County, Mississippi, Warren

Washington County, Mississippi, Washington

Wayne County, Mississippi, Wayne

Webster County, Mississippi, Webster

Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Wilkinson

Winston County, Mississippi, Winston

Yalobusha County, Mississippi, Yalobusha

Yazoo County, Mississippi, Yazoo

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Forrest Forrest may refer to: Places Australia Forrest, Australian Capital Territory Forrest, Victoria, a small rural township Division of Forrest, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia Electoral distric ...