An Asset for Vicksburg

All Saints’ Episcopal School on Confederate Avenue (Katie Carter*The Vicksburg Post)

It was announced in The Vicksburg Post yesterday that a service organization, AmeriCorps, which will be the fifth in the United States, is coming to Vicksburg. It will be housed in the 100-year-old All Saints' Episcopal School which closed its doors as a religious boarding school in 2006.

The Episcopal Diocese of MS, which co-owns the school with the Episcopal Dioceses of Louisiana, Arkansas and Western Louisiana, has leased the 40-acre complex to AmeriCorps, a government service program.

The Vicksburg campus will be the fifth in the country; the other four are in Denver, Sacramento, Perry Point, MD, and Vinton, Iowa.

This is a big win for Vicksburg and was a result of a lot of work that was done with the city government of Vicksburg helping the Diocese to lay the plan for AmeriCorps to come in and use the facility for their volunteers.

It comprises of nine buildings, including the dormitories - three formerly used for girls and two for boys.

The oldest building on campus, Green Hall, houses the administrative offices and all classrooms, as well as the dining hall and library.

The campus also includes a chapel and a residence that previously housed the rector, a skateboarding court, a swimming pool, two tennis courts, two soccer fields, a disc golf course, a sand volleyball course and a gym that houses weight equipment, a basketball court and a rock-climbing wall. This is a win win situation for Vicksburg! Charming, Just Charming!