Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum

39216 Jackson, MS, United States of America (USA) (Mississippi)

Mission
of the Mississippi Agriculture Museum is to create an environment that communicates the value of past and present Mississippi agricultural lifestyles, relationships and practices and their relevance to the future of all people.

The ways farmers and foresters have been able to receive and ship products have greatly influenced their lifestyles; therefore, the Museum tells their story through the medium of transportation. The Museum is divided into 3 major sections: Water, Railroad, and Road. Each of these is subdivided into an agricultural and a forestry section. The Heritage Center tour ends with the National Agricultural Aviation Museum and a section of contemporary agricultural and forestry industries.

Small Town Mississippi

From the 1820s until recent decades, Mississippi agriculture, and that of much of the South, was centered around the production of cotton. During the antebellum period, cotton was viewed as the social and economic focus of life. The wealth of planters was consumed in the purchase of land, slaves, tariffs, freight costs, and commissions.

Train Exhibit

A portion of the rail section of the Agriculture and Forestry Museum is represented by three model railroad layouts. The layouts represent railroading in the late 1960s and early 1970s when steam locomotives were nearly replaced with modern diesel-electrics using the popular HO and O scale gauges. The layouts depict the contribution of railroads to the development of agriculture and commerce in Mississippi.

The O Gauge layout represents the varied topography of Mississippi along the Mississippi River. Also exhibited in this area is a full scale exhibit of a caboose. Visitors can get an appreciation of the size of prototype trains and, perhaps, imagine the feeling of standing on the porch of the caboose as the miles roll by.

The HO Scale layout depicts Mississippi with a city area, logging area, a small rural town, catfish ponds, and fields of production agriculture. Also shown are many of the rail side industries of the era including cotton gins, sawmills, vegetable shipping warehouses, and railcar icing facilities.

Nature Trail

The Museum’s Nature Trail educates visitors on how the environment plays an important role in agriculture and how the environment has always been a friend to the farmer.
The Museum’s Nature Trail is a 300 yard wood/trestle trail running through some 10 acres of mostly trees.

National Agricultural Aviation Museum

Covering more than 5,000 square feet, the National Agricultural Aviation Museum’s floorspace and airspace provides a comprehensive and fascinating look at an industry that literally reshaped the history of agriculture.  On display are actual planes that once flew over Southern farms and plantations complimented by an informative video and a series of colorful photographs and panels.

The Fitzgerald Collection

One of the most enchanting exhibits at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum is often overlooked because it is off-the-beaten path behind the Heritage Center. All who make their way down are always glad they came and want to visit again. Everything in the building was once the prized treasure of the Fitzgeralds of Inverness, Mississippi.

Carousel

Our classic American carousel, manufactured by the Allan-Herschell Company of North Tonawanda, New York, in 1928, has been located at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum since 1988

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