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Southern Byways

Archive for the ‘Southern Mansions’ Category

March 21st, 2008

Home Visits: Pilgrimages Around the South

In addition to showing off the gardens in the region, historic homes also open their doors to the public as well. For some homes, it’s the only time they are accessible to the crowds. If you happen to be an architecture buff, history buff, antique buff, or just like to look inside homes - you […]

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February 16th, 2008

It’s Happening in the South: Natchez Spring Pilgrimage

People come from around the world to Natchez, Mississippi, during the annual Spring Pilgrimage. Scheduled for March 8 - April 12, over twenty antebellum homes, many private residences, are open to the public for tours. Not only do you have the opportunity to learn about home itself, but about the residents and their interesting stories, […]

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July 12th, 2007

Gone With the Wind - Headed to Florida

I can’t stress enough the need for entertainment on the way down… for me at least. As you have probably guessed, I hate this part of the vacation, while everyone else in the family likes it?? What is there to like about sitting in a car for two days?? So, when we head […]

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May 3rd, 2007

Fancy moving to North Carolina??

 ”This red-brick, 5,349-square-foot house inside the Ballantyne Country Club is filled with interior Corinthian columns and has a view of the course’s fairway and lake. Hardwood and tile floors run through its five bedrooms and three bathrooms.”
If you are a golfer, you would love this, but what grabbed my attention is the view of the […]

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April 5th, 2007

Longwood Mansion, Natchez, Mississippi

In the Mississippi city of Natchez, deep among forest trees dripping with Spanish moss, stands an unfinished “Oriental Villa” known as Longwood. Planned in 1859 for cotton-nabob Dr. Haller Nutt by Philadelphia’s fashionable architect, Samuel Sloan, this eight-sided castle was begun in 1860. Work halted abruptly in 1861, when the Confederate bugles echoed across the […]

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