Grand Gulf Military State Park (Mississippi)

Not to be confused with Grand Gulf State Park (Missouri).

This article is about Grand Gulf Military State Park (Mississippi). For other uses, see Grand Gulf.

Grand Gulf Military State Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mississippi Landmark
File:Confederate Memorial Chapel at Grand Gulf Military State Park.jpg
Confederate Memorial Chapel, built in 1869, was moved to Grand Gulf Military State Park from Rodney, Mississippi in 1983.
Nearest city	Port Gibson
Coordinates
Area	400 acres (160 ha)
NRHP Reference #	72000689
USMS #	021-GGF-0100-NR-ML
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1972
Designated USMS	September 28, 1987

Grand Gulf Military State Park is a Mississippi state park located 10 miles northwest of Port Gibson in the unincorporated area that is now the ghost town of Grand Gulf, in Claiborne County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Mississippi Landmark.

The 400-acre landmark includes Fort Cobun and Fort Wade, the Grand Gulf Cemetery, a museum, campgrounds, picnic areas, hiking trails, an observation tower, and several restored buildings dating back to Grand Gulf's heyday.

Grand Gulf was originally a port on the Mississippi River, and in the 19th century before the war shipped thousands of bales of cotton that arrived by rail from Clinton, Mississippi in Hinds County. Its population in 1858 was 1,000 to 1500, and the community had two churches, a hospital, theater, town hall, cotton press, steam saw, and grist mill. It became isolated later after the Mississippi River changed its course to the west, and the town died without access to the river. It became a ghost town after the turn of the 20th century.

External links

• Grand Gulf Military Park, official web site