Dabney and Dabney

Dabney and Dabney traces itself to 1794 in West Virginia, and its Mississippi chapter begins in 1835, when Lee Dabney moved the practice to Raymond. The firm relocated to Vicksburg in 1885 and to Walnut Street in 1961, where it stayed until 2022. Lucius Dabney joined the family business in 1949. At the October 2024 dedication, an archives representative counted 228 years of continuous family ownership across six generations and called it the oldest privately owned law firm in Mississippi. Judge Vicki Roach Barnes recalled Lucius Dabney Jr. as courteous and well prepared, and generous in advising younger lawyers.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 0.3 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.8 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 2.1 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.

More markers nearby

• Frank Crump, Jr. — steps away
• Willie Dixon — steps away
• Red Tops — steps away
• Balfour House — steps away