Vicksburg, Mississippi (usa)

Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg, Mississippi ranks 4,879th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Villa María, Argentina, Chadwell Heath, and Lomonosov, Russia. The most famous people from Vicksburg, Mississippi are Willie Dixon, Hank Jones, and Beah Richards. The most famous people who died in Vicksburg, Mississippi are Beah Richards. Vicksburg, Mississippi has been the birth place of many musicians, and actors and the death place of many actors. Vicksburg, Mississippi is located in United States.

Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719. The outpost withstood an attack from the native Natchez people. It was incorporated as Vicksburg in 1825 after Methodist missionary Newitt Vick. The area that is now Vicksburg was long occupied by the Natchez as part of their historical territory along the Mississippi. The first Europeans who settled the area were French colonists who built Fort Saint Pierre in 1719 on the high bluffs overlooking the Yazoo River at present-day Redwood. They conducted fur trading with the Natchez and others, and started plantations. During the American Civil War, it was a key Confederate river-port, and its July 1863 surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, along with the concurrent Battle of Gettysburg, marked the turning-point of the war. Read more on Wikipedia