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Vicksburg donates six parcels for Chickasaw Bayou Battlefield preservation
Wartime sketch, public domain / Wikimedia Commons
Vicksburg is giving six parcels of flood-buyout land to the group working to preserve the Chickasaw Bayou Battlefield.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday, Nov. 10, to donate the parcels to the Chickasaw Bayou Battlefield Commission, Inc. Community Development Director Jeff Richardson told the board the commission first approached the city about the land in 2021.
The parcels total about four acres near North Washington Street, running from around Falk Steel Road south to Kings Crossing Road. The city acquired them through a special FEMA grant because they sit in a flood zone.
The commission plans to restore the ground to its 1862 condition, alongside other land it has received, and to add safe parking, walking paths and historic markers for visitors. If the land's use defaults, ownership reverts to the city.
Chickasaw Bayou was the site of a December 1862 battle, the first major fighting of the Vicksburg campaign.
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