Newit Vick's Original Vicksburg

Newit Vick, a Methodist minister, bought land from the federal government and arrived at Walnut Hills in 1812, laying out a town between First East Street, First North Street, South Street and the river. He died of yellow fever in 1819. His son-in-law, Rev. John Lane, divided the town into lots, and Vicksburg was incorporated in 1825. The county grew fast on cotton and enslaved labor: by 1830 it held 7,861 people, 4,483 of them enslaved, and Vicksburg was becoming Mississippi's second-largest community after Natchez.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Court House Museum — 0.2 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.
• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 1.6 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.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 1.6 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.

More markers nearby

• Anchuca — steps away
• Dr. David D. Foote — steps away
• Bethel A.M.E. Church — steps away
• Sheriff Peter Crosby — 0.2 mi