July is just too hot to think, so we took a little break from our on-going polling for the 101 Mississippi Places to See Before You Die list. We started building the list with readers’ suggestions back in December and now we’re polling each region in the state in order to cull the list from about 300 to 101. Hopefully, this process will be complete by the end of the year.

Our Vicksburg poll, as with all the others, will be open for two weeks, closing around midnight on August 12. I’ve linked the proposed properties to photos and National Register nominations below, just in case you want to do research before you vote. If, like me, you don’t want to be confused with the facts, simply scroll down to the poll and cast your votes. You can vote for up to 13 places in this poll.

Vicksburg

• old Warren County Courthouse (1859-61) [National Register, HABS]
• “new” Warren County Courthouse (1940) [Mississippi Landmark, National Register]
• old Warren County Jail (1906) [Mississippi Landmark, National Register]
• St. Paul’s Catholic Church (1956-57)
• Post Office/Federal Courthouse (1937) [National Register]
• St. Francis Xavier School and Convent [Southern Cultural and Heritage Complex] (1868-1950s) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark, HABS]
• Church of the Holy Trinity (1870-1880) [National Register]
• First Presbyterian Church (1907) [National Register]
• Margaret’s Grocery
• Levee Street Railroad Depot (1907) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark]
• Crawford Street Methodist Church (1925) [National Register]
• Mt. Heroden Baptist Church (1919, 1930)
• B’nai B’rith Building (1917) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark]
• Pemberton’s Headquarters (1834) [National Historic Landmark, HABS]
• Balfour House (1835) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark]
• Vicksburg City Hall (1902) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark]
• Planters’ Hall (1834) [National Register, HABS]
• Vicksburg Military Park/National Cemetery
• Bowmar Avenue Elementary School (1939) [Mississippi Landmark]
• “Anchuca” (c.1835) [National Register]
• Shlenker House (1907) [National Register, Mississippi Landmark]
• Blum-Levy House (1902) [National Register]
• Great Hope Manor (1906) [National Register]
• Martha Vick House (c.1840) [National Register]
• The Mary Harwood (1840s)
• Duff Green Mansion (1856) [National Register]

Categories: 101 MissPres Places, Contest, Vicksburg