This is the answer. I actually thought it was already a national park, as it should be. I assume it will have a better chance after the new museum they just announced is built. I just saw an article about it a few weeks ago. Supposed to open in 2028 and will be a huge deal for Mississippi.
Yep. Always said that if Vicksburg built a Civil War museum akin to the WW2 museum in NOLA, it would be one of the top tourist attractions in the nation.
That’s because you didn’t come prepared. Always need a flat piece of cardboard and a bunch of super balls when you visit. The cardboard is to slide down the hills, the bouncy balls are for the Illinois monument.
Someone said they were going to build a large building to house the Presidential Library on the land between the Mill and Hwy 12.
I'm sure it won't be as big as the WW2 museum, but I think that's the idea. Something like it to attract tourists.
I’ve been to the WWI museum in Kansas City and have been trying to get down to NOLA for WWII. A Civil War version in Vicksburg would be awesome.
It’s a Parkway and not considered a National Park even though the National Park Service operates it.
You can still ride horses at Shiloh. The Amish go through it with their wagons too.
Well, the head ranger there spoke to a meeting I was at a few years ago, SHE said it was a National Park.
No, she isn't. The park service considers all of the various designations, not just the "national parks," to be part of the National Park system. Now if you want to die on the hill of semantics, go right ahead.
No, she isn't. The park service considers all of the various designations, not just the "national parks," to be part of the National Park system. Now if you want to die on the hill of semantics, go right ahead.
It’s a part of the system, but it’s not a national park. You don’t know what you’re talking about. This has been stated about 5 times in this thread.
Well, she isn't the only one that I have heard say it. The Superintendent at Shiloh used to say the same thing. I'll take the word of Superintendents of units of the Park Service over the words of the experts here.
Edit: you know what, nevermind. Go ahead and tell all the people you want that the natchez trace is a national park. Have fun.
I guess you guys know more than people who have spent their careers in the park service. You have to love this board!
“A woman told me, bro. Despite the official website claiming contrary.”
If would have to be named after me. I was the undisputed, unchallenged king of the Natural Beach up through 85.
I'd love to see it, unfortunately I think interest in the CW decreases every year. In the 70s/80s, among my school aged friends, we talked about the Civil War often, what if this or that had happened? I doubt my kids ever had a similar conversation with their school mates.
I heard that here in Starvkille about a year ago too, but, that's why they added that upper floor to the library in the first place was to house the Grant and Lincoln collections. Maybe they've added to the collection and running out of space, I don't know
I kind of wonder whether the interest in civil war attractions might die off. When I’ve been to Vicksburg, the average age of non-school groups appeared to be somewhere in the 70s to 120’s. I k ow a lot that is just people having more time when they’re retired, but didn’t know if some of it was due to the recency of the war. Always going to be some interest, but I think people that are in their 80’s or 90’s now, at least in the south, probably at one time referred to the north as ‘they/them’ and south as ‘we/us’ when discussing the civil war. Will some of that interest die off when we get more removed from it? Or is history history and going to have the same interest to the people inclined to it?
