Port Gibson

Port Gibson

      city, seat (1803) of Claiborne county, southwestern Mississippi, U.S., 28 miles (45 km) south of Vicksburg, near the Mississippi River on a curve of the Bayou Pierre. It was founded in 1788 by Samuel Gibson, whose cotton plantation became a meeting place for early river travelers. The city has many antebellum buildings, which can be viewed during the annual spring pilgrimage. The survival of the city during the American Civil War lends credence to General Ulysses S. Grant's remark that it was “too beautiful to burn,” said as he marched his Union troops through to Vicksburg after a victory (known as the Battle of Port Gibson) on May 1, 1863, over the Confederates at nearby Magnolia Church. The ruins of Windsor (23 Corinthian columns) are all that remain of what was considered to be the state's most extravagant Greek Revival mansion (1859–61; burned 1890). Grand Gulf State Park (8 miles [13 km] northwest), occupying the town site of Grand Gulf on the banks of the Mississippi, was the location of Confederate forts Cobun and Wade and the scene of Civil War engagements. The Natchez Trace Parkway runs past Port Gibson to the south and east.

      Port Gibson's economy is based on lumber and the manufacture of flooring and plastics. Alcorn State University (founded in 1871) is a few miles southwest near Lorman. Inc. 1803. Pop. (1990) 1,810; (2000) 1,840.

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