Top Things to do in Mississippi
The 10 Best Cemeteries in Mississippi, United States
From 24-hour casinos, upscale shopping and luxurious spas in Tunica to the Civil War sites in Vicksburg to the lush golf courses, beaches and upscale casinos in Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi offers visitors a wide range of vacation experiences. Vacationers to Mississippi can choose from a diverse group of destinations and activities. On the Gulf Coast in Biloxi and Gulfport, casino gaming, big name entertainment shows, deep-sea fishing and golf, are popular pastimes. In Vicksburg, the Vicksburg National Cemetery and Civil War sites draw many visitors. In historic Natchez, you can take a scenic drive on the Natchez Trace Parkway or visit Frogmore Plantation, one of eight plantations originally owned by a wealthy Natchez planter. For an urban experience, Jackson, dubbed the “City with Soul” has over 50 nightclubs featuring Soul, Jazz, Blues, Rock and other musical genres. Tunica offers great casinos, golf and big name entertainers such as Bonnie Rait, Smokey Robinson and George Jones. Golfers, rejoice! Mississippi has more than 150 golf courses. Among the high-profile courses on everybody’s must play list are The Links at Cottonwoods and Tunica National Golf Tennis Club in Tunica and Grand Bear Golf Club in Saucier and The Bridges Golf Club at Hollywood Casino. Families visiting Mississippi fall in love with the heaping portions of Southern hospitality. Family-oriented activities are plentiful in Mississippi whether it’s enjoying the beaches on the Gulf Coast, visiting the home of Elvis Presley in Tupelo or riding a huge paddlewheeler on the Mississippi River.
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1. Glenwood Cemetery
2. Vicksburg National Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 387 reviews
Established by the U.S. Congress in 1865 as a military burial ground, the 116-acre cemetery is the final resting place of more than 17,000 Union Soldiers.
Reviewed By janetrM8526JB - Pensacola, United States
Drive through park, takes a while to see everything. Amazing place for Civil War History, worth the time to see this place.
3. Confederate Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 39 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Just to the south of old Tad Smith Coliseum on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, within the shadows of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, is a modest walled lawn with a single monument at the center. This is the Confederate Cemetery, called "God's Little Acre," a lonely and solemn place where Confederate soldiers who died after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 are buried. During the Civil War, the 13 buildings of Ole Miss were converted into hospitals for the wounded and the ones who died were buried on the property. But how many? At one time, the cemetery had individual markers but a groundskeeper removed them to mow the lawn and forgot where they belonged. According to records, up to 4,000 Confederate soldiers were treated at Ole Miss and over 700 were buried in the cemetery. To date, about 340 have been verified. Only one is a University Grey, a member of the regiment made up of Ole Miss students and alumni, a unit that was virtually whipped out at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
4. Middleton Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
5. Historic Natchez Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 523 reviews
Reviewed By JoeBickham - Covington, United States
Our Host Doug and Don loaned us a audio CD that told us the story from all the grave markers of each person or family buried here...very fascinating history
6. Natchez National Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 135 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
In our travels, which include visits to many historical sites from coast to coast, my wife and I like to visit cemeteries. In Natchez, Mississippi, there are two historic cemeteries worth visiting. We toured the Natchez City Cemetery first because it was the first one we encountered on Cemetery Road. Then we stopped at Natchez National Cemetery at the same location. It was founded in 1866, 44 years after the city cemetery, when local residents discovered a large number of Union soldiers were buried in the levees on the west bank of the Mississippi River. They exhumed the bodies and reinterred them in the newly dedicated Natchez National Cemetery. The beautifully landscaped grounds overlooking the Mississippi River cover 25.7 acres. The most notable interment is Wilson Brown, who received the Medal Honor posthumously for action aboard the USS Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
7. Hillcrest Cemetery
8. Old Biloxi Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 78 reviews
Reviewed By pppPascagoula_Ms
Much of my family on my Dad's side is buried here in one of the old style tombs and I'm a frequent visitor. The cemetery is always beautifully maintained. Each fall there is a history tour with character re-enacters, often descendants of those they represent and well worth a visit.
9. Friendship Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 59 reviews
Reviewed By skyking56 - Columbus, United States
This historical cemetery has roots that include one of the claims to the starting of Memorial Day. Lots of Civil War history. You have to see the crying angel. During the Spring Pilgrimage the local math and science school students choose some interesting characters and role play them graveside. Very cool!
10. Cedar Hill Cemetery
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi, is as celebrated or as visited as such iconic cemeteries as Arlington in Washington DC, Hollywood in Richmond, Virginia, and Graceland in Chicago. Located at 326 Lovers Lane, Cedar Hill predates the Civil War and remains as one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in the United States that is still in use. It contains the graves of over 5,000 Confederate soldiers with over 1,600 of them identified, including Major General John Stevens Bowen, who was killed during the siege of Vicksburg in 1863. Two other Confederate generals, Isham Warren Garrott and Martin Edward Green, who also were killed at Vicksburg, also are buried on the beautifully landscaped Soldiers' Rest plot. But the most interesting and most popular attraction in the cemetery is Douglas the camel, a domesticated camel that was used by the Confederate army to transport supplies during the Civil War.
