Windsor Ruins

"Today we'll look at the often photographed ruins of the Windsor Plantation house, twelve miles southwest of Port Gibson and lying several miles to the west of the Natchez Trace Parkway. This magnificent Greek Revival plantation home sat high up on a hilltop, overlooking the Mississippi River. It was completed in 1861 just before the outbreak of the Civil War, and during the war between the states, Confederate soldiers used the roof of the mansion as an observation deck. The Windsor plantation house was fortunate to make it though the war intact. But after having survived so much of both the war and the war's aftermath this grand old building was destroyed by fire during a party in 1890.

"What's left for visitors to see today are 23 huge Corinthian columns that reach skyward and speak to the poet's heart in all of those who will take the time to listen and remember. So you see, even a Windsor in ruins is a grand mansion as its eerie columns stand like a ghostly skeleton of the antebellum South.

"Join us next time when we journey on up the parkway to walk through an enchanted forest at SUNKEN TRACE. For Natchez Trace: A Road Through the Wilderness, I'm Frank Thomas."

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