Drivers in Downtown Memphis might have noticed a significant amount of construction blocking the roadway along Pontotoc Avenue ... tech company ABB to expand Mississippi and Tennessee operations ...

Vicksburg’s National Military Park provides a self-guided driving tour of the place ... enjoy views of the Mississippi River as you stroll around downtown and enjoy the antebellum mansions ...

Both are located downtown ... tour of the place where one of the most consequential battles of the Civil War was fought. Don’t miss the reconstructed USS Cairo, an ironclad Union gunboat on display.