Old Capitol Museum

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The state's Greek Revival capitol building from 1839 to 1903 now houses a Mississippi history museum filled with films and exhibits. You'll learn that secession was far from unanimous and how Reconstruction brought some of the harshest, presegregation 'black codes' in the South.

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