South — open filings

Open to visit in Mississippi

42 dossiers in Mississippi carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

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Stuckey's Bridge

Meridian, Mississippi

The iron bridge where the murderous innkeeper was hanged.

3 claims · 3 legends→

Auburn

Natchez, Mississippi

Levi Weeks’s 1812 masterpiece—the "most magnificent" of Natchez.

3 claims · 1 legend→

Monmouth

Natchez, Mississippi

John A. Quitman’s 1818 house—the general’s ghost and the inn’s lore.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Magnolia Hall

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1858 Greek Revival—Henderson Britton’s last house.

2 claims · 2 legends→

House on Ellicott Hill

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1798 house on the hill—where the Spanish flag came down.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Melrose

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1848 NHP house—the most intact antebellum estate in Natchez.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Rocky Springs

Port Gibson, Mississippi

The Trace town that died of yellow fever—and the church still stands.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Stanton Hall

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1857 palazzo—Natchez’s grandest mansion.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Grand Village of the Natchez

Natchez, Mississippi

The Natchez people’s ceremonial center—the mounds on the bluff.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Elvis Presley Birthplace

Tupelo, Mississippi

The two-room shotgun house where the King was born—1935.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Bryant’s Grocery

Money, Mississippi

August 24, 1955—the store where Emmett Till was accused.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Tallahatchie County Courthouse

Sumner, Mississippi

The 1955 trial—where the killers walked free.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Shubuta bridge

Shubuta, Mississippi

The "hanging bridge"—where the lynchings happened.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Beauvoir

Biloxi, Mississippi

Jefferson Davis’s last home—the Confederate president’s Biloxi house.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Ship Island

Gulfport, Mississippi

Fort Massachusetts on the barrier island—where the prisoners died.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Longfellow House

Pascagoula, Mississippi

The 1849 house where "Evangeline" was written—allegedly.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Walter Place

Holly Springs, Mississippi

The mansion where Grant’s wife stayed—and the ghosts remain.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Jimmie Rodgers Museum

Meridian, Mississippi

The Singing Brakeman’s museum—the father of country music’s hometown.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Plantation Ruins

Windsor Ruins

Port Gibson, Mississippi

Plantation ruins in Mississippi; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Massachusetts

Gulfport, Mississippi

Fort in Mississippi; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Glenwood Cemetery — Witch’s Grave

Yazoo City, Mississippi

Cemetery in Yazoo City; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Friendship Oak

Long Beach, Mississippi

Legend tree in Long Beach; research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman)

Parchman, Mississippi

Parchman Farm—the convict-labor plantation where the blues were born and broken.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Longwood

Natchez, Mississippi

The unfinished octagon—the largest octagonal house in America, frozen in 1861.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Dunleith

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1856 Greek Revival inn whose colonnades frame a century of lore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Rosalie

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1823 bluff house that gave Fort Rosalie its name—and saw the river’s dead.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Linden

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1800 house with the door to nowhere—and a woman on the stairs.

1 claim · 1 legend→

D’Evereux

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1840 mansion where the chandelier still hangs.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Rowan Oak

Oxford, Mississippi

Historic house in Oxford; research record.

Pascagoula Abduction site

Pascagoula, Mississippi

The 1973 shipyard-abduction case that made national news and left a historical marker.

Lansdowne

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1853 house where the family still lives—six generations on.

Montaigne

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1855 suburban villa—William Conner’s escape from the city.

Emerald Mound

Natchez, Mississippi

The second-largest mound in America—35 feet of Mississippian earthwork.

Dockery Farms

Cleveland, Mississippi

The plantation where the blues were born—Charley Patton’s home.

Biloxi Lighthouse

Biloxi, Mississippi

The 1848 cast-iron tower that survived Katrina—still standing in the median.

Fort Maurepas

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

1699—Iberville’s first French settlement on the Gulf.

Ida B. Wells birthplace

Holly Springs, Mississippi

The 1862 cabin site—where the anti-lynching crusader was born.

Dentzel Carousel

Meridian, Mississippi

The 1909 carousel in Highland Park—still turning.

Forks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus

Natchez, Mississippi

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Corinth Contraband Camp

Corinth, Mississippi

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Horn Island (Gulf Islands National Seashore, NPS)

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Ship Island (Gulf Islands National Seashore, NPS)

Gulfport, Mississippi

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026