MDAH awards $200,000 to preserve Chickasaw Bayou sites

Published 2:40 pm Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Several Warren County sites were announced as the 2023 grantees of a Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH)  program known as the Mississippi Historic Site Preservation Grant  (MHSPG).

 In 2021, the Mississippi State Legislature authorized the creation of the MHSPG program to acquire sites related to Civil War battles, Native American archaeology and civil rights history. These funds will allow endangered and significant properties to be preserved.

“For over 20 years, the state legislature has offered generous support for Community Heritage Preservation Grant funding, which has aided in the rehabilitation of hundreds of Mississippi’s historic courthouses, schools and other landmark buildings,” said Barry White, director of historic preservation at MDAH. “The MHSPG program builds upon our role in preservation by assisting our partners with the acquisition of significant historic properties. These grants elevate Mississippi’s capability to preserve important properties, tell their broader stories,and attract new visitors.”

Eligible properties must be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, listed in the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation’s Civil War Battlefields, or identified as nationally significant in a National Park Service Special Resource Study.

The grantee sites for this year are as follows: