State by State Guide to Southern Historic Sites, Landmarks & More

Historic Sites & Points of Interest in the South

Alabama Historic Sites
Fort Mims was the scene of a
bloody battle during the Creek
Wars and is one of many
historic sites in Alabama.

Arkansas Historic Sites
Fort Smith was the home of
the real "Hanging Judge" of
the Old West and the setting
of True Grit.

Historic Sites & Points of Interest in the South - A State by State Guide

Historic Sites & Homes
The South is graced with some of the most beautiful
architecture and historic sites in the world, from
landmark buildings to historic mansions.

History & Beauty in the South

The South is a special place, with a unique
culture, remarkable history and unforgettable
natural scenery.

ExploreSouthernHistory.com focuses
exclusively on the South, its historic sites,
destinations and natural wonders. Our focus is
heritage and eco-tourism. We take a special
interest in "off the beaten path" locations and
communities.

To learn more, the links below are organized
state by state. Be sure to scroll down to see
directories for all states currently online.

Florida Historic Sites
St. Augustine is the oldest city
in the continental United
States. Founded in 1565, its
residents enjoyed a city park
before the Pilgrims reached
Plymouth Rock.

Georgia Historic Sites
Red Oak Covered Bridge near
Woodbury is the longest and
oldest covered bridge in
Georgia, which also boasts
the southernmost in the U.S.

Louisiana Historic Sites
Poverty Point in northeastern
Louisiana is a massive
archaeological site that was
home to one of America's
earliest major cultures.

Mississippi Historic Sites
Vicksburg National Military
Park preserves the batteries
and fortifications of the Civil
War siege of Vicksburg.

Missouri Historic Sites
Branson is a noted resort and
entertainment destination, but
is also surrounded by historic
sites and magnificent scenery.

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Alabama

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Alabama Main Page

Absalom Pratt House

Alabama Iron and Steel Museum

Alabama State Capitol

Battle of Columbus (Girard)

Battle of Ebenezer Church

Battle of Fairview

Battle of Fort Blakeley

Battle of Fort Bowyer

Battle of Fort Charlotte

Battle of Holy Ground

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Battle of Mobile Bay

Battle of Newton

Battle of Selma

Battle of Spanish Fort

Battleship U.S.S. Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama - Historic Sites

Brierfield Ironworks Historical State Park

Cahaba (Castle Morgan) Civil War Prison

Cheaha State Park

Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Center

Chattahoochee State Park

Claybank Church

Coldwater Covered Bridge

Columbia, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Columbia's Historic Churches

Columbia's Old Jail

Confederate Memorial Park

Creek War of 1813-1814

Dauphin Island

DeSoto Falls

DeSoto State Park

Dome from Alabama's First State Capitol

Dothan, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

D othan Area Botanical Gardens

Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama

Eufaula, Alabama - Historic Sites

Face in the Window, An Alabama Ghost

First Capitol of the Confederacy

First Seminole War of 1817-1818

First White House of the Confederacy

Fort Conde

Fort Crawford

Fort Cusseta

Fort Gaines Historic Site

Fort Mims State Historic Site

Fort Mitchell Historic Site

Fort Morgan Historic Site

Fort Payne's Old Fort

Fort Payne, Alabama - Historic Sites

Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Historic Site

Grave of General Braxton Bragg

Grave of General William J. Hardee

Gulf Shores, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Gulf State Park

Gun from C.S.S. Tennessee

Hank Williams Grave & Memorial

Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum

Historic Blakeley State Park

John Wilkes Booth Monument

Lakepoint Resort State Park

Landmark Park

Little River Canyon National Preserve

Little River Falls

Lowndesboro, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Magee Farm Truce (1865)

Mentone, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

M obile, Alabama
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Mobile Campaign

Mobile National Cemetery

Moss Rock Preserve & Waterfalls

Mt. Vernon Arsenal & Barracks

Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument

Noccalula Falls

Oak Mountain State Park & Peavine Falls

Old Cahawba Archaeological Site

O rr Park Tree Carvings

Sadler Plantation House

Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park

Selma, Alabama - Historic Sites

Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet

Sketoe's Hole Ghost Story

Skirmish at Hobdy's Bridge (1865)

Swann Covered Bridge

Talladega National Forest

U.S. Snagboat Montgomery

Waterfalls of Alabama

Waterfalls of the Cheaha Area

William B. Travis Home

William Weatherford Grave

Wills Town Mission and Cemetery

Arkansas

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Arkansas Main Page

Albert Pike's School House

Arkansas Post National Monument

Arkansas Post Museum State Park

Artist Point and Artist Point Falls

Battle of Cane Hill

Battle of Devil's Backbone

Battle of Dripping Springs

Battle of Fayetteville

Battle of Fort Smith

Battle of Jenkins Ferry

Battle of Massard Prairie

Battle of Pea Ridge

Battle of Poison Spring

Battle of Prairie Grove

Battle of Van Buren

Beaver Bridge - "Little Golden Gate"

Belle Grove Historic District in Fort Smith

Boston Mountains Scenic Loop

Cane Hill College

Civil War Seizure of the Arkansas Cannon

Crescent Hotel - America's Most Haunted

Devil's Den State Park

Eureka Springs Area Historic Sites

Fayetteville Area Historic Sites

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith Area Historic Sites

Garvin Woodland Gardens

Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs Area Historic Sites

Mount Magazine State Park

Mulberry River

Mulberry River Area Waterfalls

Ouachita Mountains

Ozark, Arkansas

Ozark Howler (Cat Monster)

Ozark National Forest

Ozarks of Arkansas

Parkin Archaeological State Park

Pedestal Rocks Scenic Area

Petit Jean State Park

P ig Trail Scenic Byway

Queen Wilhelmina State Park

Rich Mountain Pioneer Cemetery

Scenic Highway 7

Siloam Springs Area Historic Sites

Talimena Scenic Drive

Van Buren Area Historic Sites

War Eagle Mill

Waterfalls of Arkansas

White Rock Mountain

Wild Man - 19th Century Bigfoot Sightings

Louisiana

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Louisiana Main Page

Assassination of Huey P. Long

Audubon Pilgrimage (St. Francisville)

Audubon State Historic Site (Oakley)

Baton Rouge National Cemetery

Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)

Battle of Baton Rouge (1862)

Battle & Siege of Port Hudson

Day the War Stopped

Grace Episcopal Church

Grant's Canal

Lake Providence

L ouisiana State Capitol

Louisiana's Old State Capitol

Old Arsenal Museum & Powder Magazine

Port Hudson National Cemetery

Port Hudson State Historic Site

Poverty Point Archaeological Site

Pvt. Edwin F. Jemison, C.S.A.

Republic of West Florida (1810)

Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site

St. Francisville, Louisiana
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

USS Kidd & Museum

Mississippi

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Mississippi Main Page

Battle of Booneville

Battle of Brices Cross Roads

Battle of Corinth

Battle of Raymond

Battle of Tupelo

Battle of Vicksburg

Beauvoir - Home of Jefferson Davis

Biloxi Lighthouse

Birthplace of Elvis Presley

Bynum Mounds

Chickasaw Village and Fort

Columbis, Mississippi
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Elizabeth Female Academy

Emerald Mound

Ghost of Deer Island & Firewater Ghost

Grand Gulf Military Monument

Loess Bluff Exhibit

Mount Locust Inn & Plantation

Natchez Trace Parkway

Owl Creek Mounds

Raymond, Mississippi
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Stephen D. Lee Home & Museum

Tennessee Williams Birthplace

Tupelo, Mississippi
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Vicksburg, Mississippi
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Waverly Mansion & Gardens

Missouri

Missouri Main Page

Branson Area Historic Sites

Branson Scenic Railway

Branson Titanic Museum

Dogwood Canyon Nature Park

Ghost of Big Cedar

Roaring River State Park

Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area

Showboat Branson Belle

North Carolina

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North Carolina Main Page

Alamance Battleground

Allen House at Alamance Battleground

Battle of Bentonville

Battle of Goldsborough Bridge

Battle of Guilford Courthouse

Battleship U.S.S. North Carolina

Bennett Place State Historic Site

Blue Ridge Parkway

Cold Mountain

Colonial Heritage Center

Duke Homestead State Historic Site

Fort Caswell

Graveyard Fields & Waterfalls

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Hardee at the Regulators' Field (1865)

North Carolina Maritime Museum

Nuclear Bomb Mishap (Wayne County)

Oak Island Lighthouse

Old Baldy Lighthouse

Old Brunswick County Jail

Old Smithville Burying Ground

R ace to the Dan

Southport Area Historic Sites

Historic Stagville Plantation

Tannenbaum Historic Park

Oklahoma

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Battle of Honey Springs 150th

Oklahoma Main Page

14 Flags Museum in Sallisaw

Battle of Honey Springs (Elk Creek)

Captain's Castle - The Oklahoma Castle

Death of Ma Barker (Florida)

Fort Gibson Historic Site

Fort Gibson National Cemetery

Heavener Runestone Park

Horse Thief Spring

Milly Francis, The Creek Pocahontas

Muskogee Area Historic Sites

Muskogee Azalea Festival

Natural Falls State Park

Ouachita Mountains

Robbers Cave State Park

Sequoyah's Cabin Historic Site

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center

Submarine U.S.S. Batfish

Talimena Scenic Drive

Tenkiller State Park & Lake Tenkiller

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

South Carolina

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O akley Park Museum

Battle of Cowpens

Battle of Kings Mountain

Castle Pinckney

Charleston, South Carolina
Historic Sites & Points of Interest

Edgefield Ghost

Edgefield, South Carolina
H istoric Sites & Points of Interest

Fort Moultrie

Fort Sumter National Monument

Immortal Six Hundred

Kings Mountain State Park

Ninety Six National Historic Site

Tennessee

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Amish Country of Lawrence County

Battle of Lookout Mountain

Battle of Shiloh

Books about the Battle of Shiloh

Bell Witch of Tennessee

Chattanooga Choo-Choo

David Crockett Museum (Lawrenceburg)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Natchez Trace

Shiloh Indian Mounds National Landmark

Shiloh National Cemetery

Texas

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The Alamo

The Alamo Cenotaph

Death of David Crockett

San Antonio Area Historic Sites

San Antonio River Walk

San Fernando Cathedral

San Jacinto Battlefield

Spanish Governor's Mansion

Virginia

Virginia Main Page

Appomattox Confederate Cemetery

Appomattox Court House N.H.P.

Aquia Episcopal Church

Arlington House

Battle of Appomattox Court House

Battle of Chancellorsville

Battle of Fredericksburg

Battle of Staunton River Bridge

Battle of Yorktown

Blockade of the Potomac River

Blue Ridge Parkway

Cannon Branch Fort (Manassas)

Confederate Prison Number 6

Crossing of the Dan

Jamestown, Virginia

Leesylvania State Park

Mayfield Fort Historic Site (Manassas)

Stafford Civil War Park

Sutherlin Mansion
Last Capitol of the Confederacy

Surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee

Battlefields & Forts
No region of the United States has been as fought
over as the South. Battlefields and forts dot the
landscape and are embedded in the culture.

Ghosts & Monsters
The South is America's most haunted region. From
haunted houses to haunted lighthouses, ghost
stories and tales of strange creatures abound.

North Carolina Historic Sites
Famed literary and movie
landmark Cold Mountain is
among the views seen from
the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Oklahoma Historic Sites
The Muskogee Azalea
Festival is among the most
beautiful annual events in the
South.

South Carolina Historic Sites
The cannon of Fort Sumter
still aim out over Charleston
Harbor, reminders of the
opening battle of the Civil War.

Tennessee Historic Sites
Shiloh National Military Park
preserves the scene of the
Battle of Shiloh, where men
fell by the thousands.

Texas Historic Sites
The Alamo is a landmark of
human courage and one of
the most important historic
sites in the South.

Virginia Historic Sites
The Battle of Yorktown forever
changed the history of the
world. By defeating the British
here, George Washington
assured the survival of the
American nation.

Civil War Sites in the South