During the evenings, you'll have many leisure opportunities: golf at the Eagle Ridge Pro Course, listening to a Confederate solder and touring the Vicksburg National Military Park, shopping in historic downtown Vicksburg, a "round table" dinner at  Walnut Hills Restaurant, a tour of the City of Vicksburg to see antebellum homes including many styles of architecture, and an optional stop at a riverboat casino. Click to visit the Vicksburg Convention & Visitor's Bureau.

Tour of Vicksburg
Thursday, July 17, 2008   3 p.m. until 9:45 p.m.

Spend a conference evening in Vicksburg enjoying the hospitality and Southern cooking of this historical town and see history, architecture, and the famous U.S. National Military Park, considered by many as one of the country’s most beautiful national memorials.

This evening tour takes you to Vicksburg, Mississippi, famous for its strategic role in the Civil War.  Vicksburg has an interesting and diverse history with French and Spanish occupation. “America’s River Port City”, was founded in 1819 on the plantation of William Vick and John Lane and evolved from once was a thriving frontier settlement into a very well ordered prosperous city in 1861. Vicksburg controlled the Mississippi River. Its citizens and soldiers starved and with little or no supplies for 47 days, Vicksburg finally surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863. The trying years of recovery, the prospering city with steamboat trade, and the changing course of the Mississippi River, shaped Vicksburg as it is known today.