A guided tour will take you across the Jordan River into the “Land of Promise, the land of Israel.” The model cities, villages, and the Holy City of Jerusalem depict the times of Jesus’ walk on this earth in the first century A.D. There are many landmarks a visitor will recognize in both the Old Testament and New, such as Mt. Carmel, the Dead Sea, Herod’s Place, and Districts of Judea, Samaria, and Galilee. The quarter-mile walking tours are designed to take in account of the visitors’ prior knowledge (or lack of thereof) of Biblical stories so all will enjoy the experience.

Established in 1960 on a dirt road in the middle of the rural Mississippi woods, Reverend Walter Harvell Jackson and his wife began a lifelong desire to build a scale replica where one yard equates to one mile, but having the models at a much larger proportion for aesthetic reasons. Using common cinder blocks, half blocks and other half round blocks and mixing mortar, the project began in 1953. Additions and restoration continue today but many towns are the original work of the founder. Mr. Jackson passed on in 1987 and his wife the following year but experience of visualizing the Land of the Bible continues on.