VICKSBURG, vllcs'berg, Miss., city, county:. seat of Warren County, on the Mississippi River, a few miles below the mouth of the Yazoo River, and on the Alabama and Vicks burg, the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific and the Illinois Central railroads, about -45 miles west of Jackson, the capital and largest city of the State, and 230 miles northwest of New Orleans. The city has regular steamboat con nections with all the important Mississippi River ports. It is in an agricultural region in which cotton is one of the principal products. It is on a high bluff overlooldng the river, and the streets, though not broad, are regular, well kept, and have a ntunber of shade trees. The dud manufacturing establishments are cotton seed-oil mills, planing mills, railroad shops, foundries, machine shops and an ice factory. In 1910 (government census) there were 47 manu factones with a combined capital invested in plants of $1,235,743; and employing 1,433 per sons, to whom were paid annually $695,000. The cost of raw material was $1,085,127 and the annual value of the product was $2,229,344. The city has an extensive trade in cotton and lumber products and general produce.
The principal public buildings are the gov ernment building, the county courthouse, the Charity hospital, the churches and schools. The
educational institutions are a public high school, Saint Aloysius College (R'.C.), for boy.s, Cherry Street College (colored), founded in 1892, Saint Francis Xavier's Academy, public dud parish schools for both races and school libraries. There is here a National cemetery which contains 16,727 graves, of which 12,723 are of unlcnown dead. The eight banks have a combined capital of about $1,000,000. There are two daily newspapers. The governrnent is vested in a mayor and board of aldermen, con sisting of eight members. Vicksburg was laid out as a city on the plantations of John Lane and William Vick. In 1840 it was incorpo rated. It soon became a prominent distributing centre for the interior towns and a shipping point for the products of the plantations. rt came into great prominence during the Civil War. The city suffered some damages in 1876, when the river cut through a necic of land. The government has since expended about $3,000,000 in efforts to divert the Yazoo River, and also to restore the harbor. Pop. 23,000.