6 Historical Landmarks in Mississippi
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When I moved to Mississippi and saw the old Antebellum Homes it made the Florida Mansions seem so small. I had by this time already seen Gone With The Wind at least fifteen times. My desire to live in a Plantation home just grew more and more. The closest to that desire happened when I moved to Jackson, Mississippi. The first place I rented was an old antebellum home that had been subdivided into twenty or so apartments. In the parlor of the home were pictures of the house back in it's hey-day. In my apartment I had one of the many original fireplaces that still worked and would sit in front of the fire and daydream of what it must have been like to live back in the time when this house was in full operation. Of course there where no slaves in my daydreams it was full of the house and it's beauty and it's architecture. Shortly after I moved from the apartment the house was torn down for a shopping complex.
I want to take you back in time to a period of our history that will forever be etched in our hearts and mind. Come and go with me as we visit 6 historical landmarks in Mississippi. I will pick you up at the end of the tree lined drive. I will be in the horse drawn carriage in my traveling Southern Bell dress and I will be wearing a purple bonnet.
“Updated 2-16-2012”
What You Will Find In This Article
Longwood Home Natchez, MS ♨ Nutt's Folly ♨ Longwood Home Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ Melrose House Natchez, MS ♨ 80 Acre Home ♨ Melrose House Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ John C. Pemberton Headquarters ♨ The Museum ♨ Battle Vicksburg Tribute Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ The Old South Homes ♨ Shiloh National Military Park ♨ Hardin Counties: TN & MS ♨ Military Park Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ William Faulkner House ♨ Rowan Oak ♨ Rowan Oak Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ Dunleith Natchez, MS ♨ Dunleith Home ♨ Can You See It Video ♨ See it on Google Map ♨ Natchez Trace News ♨ Follow Me On Twitter ♨ Re-Tweet ♨ Contact Me ♨ Do You Squidoo? ♨ Your Voice Counts ♨ About Towanda ♨ Other Historical Landmark Places
The Longwood Home Natchez, Mississippi
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Nutt's Folly
The Longwood Home is located at 140 Lower Woodville Road, Natchez, Mississippi and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 16, 1969.
The people of Natchez more than likely know the Longwood Home as Nutt's Folly. The home was designed for Dr. Haller Nutt, a cotton planter. The building of the home was stopped in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War. Three years later Dr. Nutt passed on due to pneumonia. The work was incomplete except for the nine rooms on the basement level.
The home is known as an Antebellum Octagonal. It survived many years of neglect to only come out as one of the Natchez popular home It is now owned by the Pilgrimage Garden Club and operated as a historical museum. The house is available for rent. If you are in the area be sure to check on the rental information.
Antebellum Octagonal
The Longwood Home
The Melrose House Natchez, Mississippi
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The Melrose House
Melrose Home is located at Melrose Avenue, Natchez, Mississippi and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places May 30, 1974
The 80 acre home is part of the Natchez National Historical Park. Its decor is made up of furnishings you would find prior to the Civil War. On the grounds you will see this Mansion, a two storied kitchen, smoke house, barn and carriage home along with other buildings on the property. The home is open to the public for guided tours.
Melrose Plantation
Confederate General John C. Pemberton Headquarters
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Pemberton's Headquarters
Pemberton's Headquarters is located at 1018 or 1020 Crawford Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places December 8, 1976.
This home was the house the headquarters for Confederate General John C. Pemberton in the 47 day siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi.It is also the site where the General surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1863.
Today the house is a museum and part of the Vicksburg National Military Park. Tours for the house are given on Fridays and Saturdays during the summer months.
Pemberton's Headquarters
The Old South Homes
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Shiloh National Military Park
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Shiloh National Military Park at
Hardin County, Tennessee & Corinth, Mississippi
Shiloh National Military Park is located at Hardin County, Tennessee & Corinth, Mississippi, USA and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966.
The park preserves the American Civil War battlefields of Shiloh and Corinth. The Battle of Shiloh was the beginning of a six-month battle for the main railroad in Corinth. It was one of the first major battles in the Western Theater of the Civil War. 24,000 people were killed, wounded or missing in this battle. It was an indisputable defeat for the Confederates. The battlefield is named after Shiloh Methodist Church in Tennessee.
The Military Park was a direct result of the farmers living in the area. Their request was to stop the animals from rooting up the remains of the fallen soldiers. They wanted the Federal Government to do something about it. It was passed from the War Department to the National Park Services in 1933.
Shiloh National Military Park
Rowan Oak
William Faulkner House
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William Faulkner House
William Faulkner House (Rowan Oak) is located at Old Taylor Road, Oxford, Mississippi and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places May 23, 1968.
This is William Faulkner's former home located in Oxford, Mississippi. The home was purchased in the 1930's when it was in disrepair. He did most of the renovations himself. The house was finished in the 1950's. It sets on twenty-nine acres of woods also known as Bailey's Woods. The area that surrounds the home holds species of native Mississippi plants and trees found back in the Antebellum era. The driveway is lined with cedar. Mr. Faulkner's inspiration for the home came from the past being joined with the future.
Mr. Faulkners' daughter sold the house to the University of Mississippi in 1972. The home promotes the writings of William Faulkner. The home is available for tours.
William Faulkner Home
Dunleith Natchez, Mississippi
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Dunleith Home
Dunleith is located at 84 Homochitto Street, Natchez, Mississippi and entered the U.S. National Register of Historic Places December 2, 1974.
The original that was sitting on the 40 acres burnt to the ground when struck by lightning in 1855. Mary Routh was the owner of the home. Her husband rebuilt the home. In 1858 it was sold to Alfred Vidal Davis, who named the home Dunleith. The house consists of 26 rooms and several outbuildings. Porches surround the first and second floors.
See if you can find the Dunleith Home in this video
hint its the third or fourth house shown
Dunleith Home
Natchez Trace News
- Bucket Brigade Gives a Lift So Salamanders Can Live to Mate
- When it rains hard at night, they rush to a dark stretch of the Natchez Trace Parkway and start scooping salamanders into quart-size freezer containers. Then (and this is not the premise for a joke), they help them cross the road.
- Natchez Trace spring ride benefits housing programs
- Viewed from the Natchez Trace Bridge, cyclists ride in a cluster on Highway 96 west of Franklin. STEVEN S HARMAN/THE TENNESSEAN / Copyright 2004 No Tennessean The Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure is having its first-ever spring bike ride March 9-17 down ...
- Mississippi: Following the Natchez Trace Parkway
- Max Davidson took a drive along the Natchez Trace Parkway, the state's most scenic road, to find out. By Max Davidson As a fashionable destination, Mississippi just doesn't hack it. "Whadya want to go there for?" says a taxi-driver in Nashville, ...
- 'Lost on the Natchez Trace' by Jan Buttram
- Alas, ?Lost on the Natchez Trace,? at the Dorothy Strelsin Theater, happens to be such a play but struggles to reach its flashpoint. Malcolm, the auctioneer, has been swept away by a flood in the swamplands of Mississippi and finds himself wounded and ...
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Sylvestermouse
Feb 10, 2012 @ 6:43 pm | delete
- These are truly beautiful homes! I have been to Shiloh several times myself. When I was a teenager, I actually jumped in the Tenn. River right there at the drive around by the edge of the river. I recently returned and photographed a butterfly at approx. the spot where we crazy teens took a swim (If you wish, you can see the butterfly on Zazzle). I never go to Shiloh though that I don't think of all of the lives lost there and all of the Southern gentlemen buried in unmarked mass graves. It is truly a sad reminder of one of the worst times in our country's history. As for the Antebellum homes, my sister owns one, not picture above, and one of her daughters was married there in true Southern / Antebellum style :) Oops, is my heritage showing?!!!! lol
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smithlights
Jun 23, 2011 @ 3:03 am | delete
- Terrific lens! Thanks for sharing!
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Rafick Jun 9, 2011 @ 12:22 pm | delete
- Beautiful I know a bit of Mississippi from the various novels I've read and movies I've watched which have it as setting. Rafick
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GilWarzecha
May 25, 2011 @ 7:37 am | delete
- Great lense! Very interesting!!!
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msbaby
May 2, 2011 @ 1:42 pm | delete
- Longwood is one of the homes we've visited more than once. It's an amazing place, frozen in time with the tools still lying where the workmen from the north left them when the War broke out.
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