Museum we are standing on the first floor in this National Historic landmark built in 1839, which makes this 175 years old this year. This is the oldest surviving building in jackson and a place where mississippi history happened. Over the 175 years many things occurred in this building within these halls that affected mississippis history made us what we are today. From 1839 to 1903 this building served as the Mississippi State house which was the witness of many important laws passed, visits by important statesmen across the south, a lot of important events took place here. For instance mississippi is he withdrew from the union in 1961 passed our last two constitution even the one in kpins today passed in 19 niept most of the universities and college were chartered here. Laws that granted rights and laws that took away rights where a passed here. Its easy to say within the walls that mississippi is where it is due due to the events here. We are standing inside the preservation hall w
Up byrth end is taken what is now the library. We are standing in the quad, as it is known today. Interestingly enough, the quad has been the central part of campus from its earliest how things. The rotunda was right behind me. You can imagine alongside either edge, east and west, where the university dormitories were. Directly behind it was the lyceum. That was another classically inspired building where all the classrooms took place. On either side of the lyceum were the faculty houses. This was like an educational village right and the middle of what, at the time was considered by outsiders as the wilderness, the western country. So land was granted for the university in 1827. The university opened its doors in 1831. The campus was designed by the state architect William Nichols, who also designed the State Capitol building in downtown tuscaloosa. It was designed as an academic village, speak, on the model of the university of virginia. Even going so far as to design a rotunda based
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