The following list of architectural heritage sites can help you in building your trip.

OXFORD:

• Rowan Oak — Novelist William Faulkner’s home, an antebellum manse that the writer renovated and enlarged, doing much of the construction work himself.
  
• Ole Miss Campus — Lyceum, Barnard Observatory, Ventress Hall, and Walton-Young Home.
  
• Town Square — Designated as a National Historic District.
  
  

• Walter Place — Now a restored estate with cottages and formal gardens, one of Holly Springs largest and most unusual antebellum homes, its design a mélange of Gothic and Greek Revival styles.
  
• Ida B. Wells Museum — Located in the historic Spires-Bolling Home, constructed by one of Holly Springs most successful builders.

• Desoto Court Square — Listed on the National Register of Historic Place.
  
• Desoto County Courthouse — Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; interior murals depict DeSoto’s arrival.

• Octagonal House — 8-sided home built in 1844.

• Wesson House — Home of the town’s first mayor, built approximately 1875; Mississippi Landmark.

• Ingomar Temple Mounds — Preserved site of ceremonial and burial complex dating from Middle Woodland Period.

• Tishomingo State Park — Stone park buildings were constructed with stone quarried nearby as part of a 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps project.
  
• Pharr Mounds — A 90-acre complex of eight different burial mounds constructed during the Middle Woodland Period, approximately 2,000 years ago.
  
• Bear Creek Mound — Square, flat-topped mound built during the Mississippi Period, between 1100 and 1300 AD.

• Elvis birthplace — Two room shotgun house constructed by Elvis Presley’s father, Vernon Presley.

• Owl Creek Mounds — 2 visible mounds and a remnants, approximately 1,000 years old.
  
• Bynam Mounds — 6 burial mounds built during the Middle Woodland Period.

• Restored log village — Where first the French trader, the father of Greenwood Leflore, set up his trading post on the Natchez Trace.

• Town Square — National Historic District.
  
• Attala County Courthouse — Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Cotton District — Good example of “New Urbanism”.

• Tennessee Williams Home/Welcome Center — Victorian home and former Episcopal rectory.
  
• Mississippi University for Women — Multiple buildings on campus are listed on the National Register for Historic Places.
  
• Numerous antebellum homes, multiple historic districts. Click for tour information.

• Fifteen minutes from West Point on Highway 50 is Waverly Plantation. Built in 1852, the home features an unusual octagonal cupola, and was once the hub of a self-sustaining community with its own lumber mill, leather tannery and hat manufacturing operation. The nation’s firstfoxhunt association was formed in the mansion’s library in 1893.

• Numerous antebellum homes, multiple historic districts. Click for more information.