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	"Mississippi Heritage Trust is an organization that seeks to protect Mississippi's irreplaceable cultural heritage - our towns and places, our sense of place that everyone recognizes as Mississippi, the place that inspired our literary greats, the place that is cherished by each Mississippian, and the place that is known throughout the world as a birthplace of creative genius." Ron Miller - Past President, Mississippi Heritage Trust

Planned Preservation Work for 2010

2010 will be another challenging, but exciting, year for the Mississippi Heritage Trust and just like 2009 will be a busy one!  Building upon our previous historic preservation work around the state last year we have much planned for this year with projects that include: 

• Continuing work on the Lowry House with the restoration of the exterior.
• Preparing for our 2010 Preservation Conference in Natchez May 6th and 7th.
• Announcing the 2010 Heritage Award winning projects at the conference.
• Sending the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places exhibit across the state.
• Completing Historic Resource Surveys for Hernando and Summit.
• Assisting the Mississippi Main Street Association with Community Planning Charrettes to help several cities to improve and enhance their downtowns.

• Finishing the Good Neighbor Paint Program on the coast.

As a non-profit organization all that we do at the Mississippi Heritage Trust is a result of the financial support from our members and sponsors across the state, and from around the country.

So if you are not a member, please consider joining (just click on the Join Now button on any page) us in the fight to save the historic resources that make Mississippi unique!

Historic Preservation Curriculum Available

From the grand State Capitol in Jackson to the modest shotgun home of Elvis Presley in Tupelo, our historic buildings tell the story of Mississippi’s rich and colorful past. In order to foster an appreciation of our rich cultural and architectural history, the Mississippi Heritage Trust is proud to offer a historic preservation curriculum for use in schools across the state.

 For more information on the curriculum or to download

a copy click here.

Help Save Church Street in Port Gibson!!

Beautiful historic homes, churches and trees are threatened by the "improvement" of Highway 61 along Church Street in the historic town of Port Gibson.  The Mississippi Department of Transportation is looking to improve and widen sections of the street to increase traffic flow which could have a damaging impact on the numerous historic structures and wonderful trees that border the street.

Click here to visit the Port Gibson Heritage Trust web site to learn more about this issue!

Lowry House Project

MHT has been working hard to save the former home of Mississippi Governor Robert Lowry (1882-1890) located in Jackson.  The house can be documented to the 1870s and is one of Jackson’s few remaining raised cottages with Greek Revival and Italiante details. The house was in the path of expansion of Baptist Hospital and in June of 2007 the house was moved to its present location. Since then MHT has been working on rehabilitating the house with foundation work, porch reconstruction, roof repair, and more. A Historic Structures Report on the history and evolution of the house was completed in 2009 and architectural plans for the restoration of the exterior and rehabilitation of the interior are underway. When enough money is raised to complete the rehabilitation of the house MHT would like to use it as its office and a Preservation Resource Center for the state.

To find out more information about the Lowry House project

and to see pictures of the house before, during,

and after the move click here.

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