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The Old Capitol Museum is set to reopen.The National Historic Landmark has been closed for repairs to the roof and dome. The Old Capitol Museum will reopen Wednesday with new hours."The Old Capitol is ...
My name is Lauren Miller, and I am the director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. I have been with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History since 2008.
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The capital city and Mississippi’s current capitol building have played big roles throughout Mississippi’s history, but so have many others over the last 226 years.
The Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi History, on State Street at Capitol, is a National Historic Landmark administered by the Department of Archives and History.
The event will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Two Mississippi Museums, the Old Capitol Museum, the State Capitol, and the Governor’s Mansion.
The event was held in the Mississippi House chamber of the Old Capitol Museum -- the exact location where delegates voted to secede. George Rable, a professor at the University of Alabama, also spoke ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Capitol and other historic buildings are decked out for the Old Jackson Christmas by Candlelight Tour. The free event is 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday.
One of five final designs for the new Mississippi state flag flutters in the breeze, outside the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss., Aug. 25, 2020, in Jackson, Miss.
Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of Representatives, died ...