This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. It includes current
National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), and also National Park Service areas in Mississippi that overlap.
National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi
There are 40
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...
s in
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
. Five of these are also State Historic Sites. For consistency, the sites are named here as designated under the National Historic Landmark program. A cross-reference list of all seven State Historic Sites is provided further below, which uses different names for some sites. The NHLs are concentrated in 17 of
Mississippi's 82 counties. Thirteen are in
Adams County alone.
Former NHLs in Mississippi
There have been no de-designations of Mississippi NHLs,
NHL de-designations
/ref> but one NHL object has been moved out of the state and was subsequently delisted:
National Park Service areas in Mississippi
National Historic Parks, National Battlefields, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs ''per se''. There are five of these in Mississippi. The National Park Service lists these five together with the NHLs in the state.[These are listed on p.113 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State," November 2007 version.] They are:
See also
*National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi
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This is a list of properties and districts in Mississippi that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties.
The locations of National Registe ...
*List of National Historic Landmarks by state
The United States National Historic Landmark Program is designed to recognize and honor the nation's cultural and historical heritage. The program was formally inaugurated with a series of listings on October 9, 1960; as of August 21, 2020, there ...
References
External links
*
National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service
*
{{National Register of Historic Places
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
National Historic Landmarks
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...
National Historic Landmarks
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...