Vicksburg Village location

Vicksburg was laid out February 22, 1872, in Section 13 of West Marion Township and recorded in Book of Deed Z, page 182. There were 70 lots and the street was 50 feet wide. The village had a store, a mill and a blacksmith shop. One did not have to wait as long to get service at the blacksmith shop as one did in Marion. Business was not as rushing in Vicksburg as it was in Marion.

The village of Vicksburg was doomed by the growth of Marion, Illinois. The county seat had grown considerably in the last century. The city surrounded the village of Vicksburg and incorporated its city limits.

Now it is that part of Marion that lies north of W. Main Street, south of the Crab Orchard and Egyptian railroad tracks, east of N. Bentley Street and west of N. Vicksburg Street as indicated by yellow boundary line shown on attached Google map from 2012.

(From an article written by Glenn Sneed in Ghost Towns of Southern Illinois and republished in the 1995 History Edition of the Marion Daily Republican)