Grand Gulf Military State Park

Coordinates: 32°1′49″N 91°3′12″W / 32.03028°N 91.05333°W

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Grand Gulf Military State Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mississippi Landmark

Confederate Memorial Chapel, built in 1868, was moved to Grand Gulf Military State Park from Rodney, Mississippi in 1983.
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Nearest city	Port Gibson
Coordinates	32°1′49″N 91°3′12″W / 32.03028°N 91.05333°W / 32.03028; -91.05333
Area	400 acres (160 ha)
NRHP reference No.	72000689
USMS No.	021-GGF-0100-NR-ML
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1972^[2]
Designated USMS	September 28, 1987^[1]

Grand Gulf Military State Park is a Mississippi state park located 10 miles northwest of Port Gibson in an unincorporated area, now the ghost town of Grand Gulf, in Claiborne County, Mississippi. The park includes the remnants of two batteries that fired on and repelled Ulysses S. Grant's forces during the Battle of Grand Gulf. After the Battle of Port Gibson, Grant made Grand Gulf his base of operations.^[3] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places^[4] and is a Mississippi Landmark.

The 400-acre landmark includes Fort Cobun and Fort Wade earthworks, the Grand Gulf Cemetery, a museum, campgrounds, picnic facilities, hiking trails, an observation tower, and restored buildings.^[5]

The town of Grand Gulf was originally a port on the Mississippi River. However, after being burned during the American Civil War and a shift in the flow of the Mississippi River, the community became a ghost town.^[6]

Gallery

Overview of the Fort Wade earth works.
Ammunition magazine at Fort Wade. The magazine was excavated in the late 1970s.
Remaining earth works of Fort Cobun.
Observation tower at Grand Gulf Military Park

References

^ "Mississippi Landmarks" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2010. Retrieved May 10, 2009.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Grand Gulf Military Monument Park". battlefields.org. American Battlefield Trust. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ "National Register of Historic Places: Grand Gulf Military State Park". Retrieved May 11, 2020.
^ "Grand Gulf Military Monument Park". ms.gov. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 794.

External links

Media related to Grand Gulf Military State Park (Mississippi) at Wikimedia Commons

Grand Gulf Military Park, official web site
Grand Gulf Cemetery at Find a Grave

Protected areas of Mississippi

Federal

National Historical Parks and national monuments	Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home Natchez
National Battlefields, Military Parks and Battlefield Sites	Brices Cross Roads NBS Shiloh NMP Tupelo NB Vicksburg NMP
National Seashores	Gulf Islands
National Trails	Natchez Trace Parkway Natchez Trace Trail
National Forests	Bienville De Soto Delta Holly Springs Homochitto Tombigbee
National Wildlife Refuges	Bogue Chitto Coldwater River Dahomey Grand Bay Hillside Holt Collier Mathews Brake Mississippi Sandhill Crane Morgan Brake Panther Swamp Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee St. Catherine Creek Tallahatchie Theodore Roosevelt Yazoo
National Estuarine Research Reserves	Grand Bay
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Black Creek

State

State Parks	Buccaneer Clark Creek Natural Area Clarkco Florewood George P. Cossar Golden Memorial Grand Gulf Military Great River Road Holmes County Hugh White John W. Kyle J. P. Coleman Lake Lincoln Lake Lowndes LeFleur's Bluff Legion Leroy Percy Natchez Paul B. Johnson Percy Quin Roosevelt Shepard Tishomingo Tombigbee Trace Wall Doxey

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks

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