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(3-2011) Enlarge McNutt House (1826-32). Once owned by Alexander G. McNutt, Mississippi's sixth governor. Tradition holds that a Confederate soldier was killed in the garden on June 4, 1863, and was buried by candlelight at the site of his death

    

(3-96) 1995 Site Marker: CS Headquarters, Stevenson's Division, Army of Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson, May 18-July 4, 1863. This building was then a dwelling house two stories high width of front same as now but depth much less

       

 

(3-01) Enlarge Lakemont (1830). 1003 Main. Home of Judge William Lake. Judge Lake served as a state senator and U.S. Congressman and was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861, but a political rival killed him in a duel before he was able to serve. The iron gate is still bent from the impact of a cannon ball

(3-01) Enlarge Lakemont. Union cannon ball damage to front gate

     

(3-2011) Enlarge The Constitution Firehouse was constructed in 1870. The cupola is from an earlier structure built in 1837

  (3-2011) Enlarge Cupola

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