Special Events: July 2007

Vicksburg Visitor Center

Location of the formal surrender
of Vicksburg.

Interior of the Visitors center
with typical Southern style.

Although we did not have time to
stop and visit the museum we have in
the past and it is worth the time.
Vicksburg is the birth place Coke.

View from the veranda in back
of the center.

One of the many monuments in
and around Vicksburg.

My grandsons mounted on the
cannon about to learn a lesson.
There be ants and bees nests located
in and around the cannons and other
artifacts.
(SURPRISE!)

A young man of special note.
His name is Bill Buckus from
Connecticut majoring in historical
preservation in Virgina.
You will find reenactors in the
welcome center posing as figures
in the exhibits between canon fires.
When you walk up to the exhibit
they will start talking as one of the
characters telling you about what
is going on at that paticular scene.
So watch out! You never know which
of the figures you see are real.

Inside the center.

Park Hours

Announcements

Holidays park is closed.

Texas is missing.

Larina likes cannons.

Cannon row.

Rain shortly after our arrival.
My grandkids must be ducks.
Larina and Tyler

Chase running on a hilltop.

Back in the van to start the tour.

Wet and happy!

Arch leading to the tour road.
The road is just over 16 miles long.
Not all of the battlefield is located
in the park the city grew into it and
several of the monuments can be found
in peoples yards and on street islands.