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Old Country Store - Lorman, Mississippi
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Michael Roth

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Published on 01-23-2017 01:36 AM
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Inside this 1890's era building, just off US-61 and a short detour from the Natchez Trace, you'll find what may be the World's Greatest Fried Chicken. Arthur "Mr. D" Davis serves up chicken from ...

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Old Douglas and Cedar Hill Cemetery - Vicksburg, Mississippi

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Jaimie Bruzenak

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Published on 06-28-2013 12:35 AM

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Among the 5000 or so Confederate dead in the city cemetery are the bones of Old Douglas, a camel. Old Douglas was the mascot of 43rd Mississippi Company A. When killed by the enemy, he was eaten by starving soldiers during ...

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Old Mississippi Capitol - Jackson, Mississippi

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Dennis Goza

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Published on 03-17-2020 02:02 AM

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The old Mississippi capitol building, located just a few blocks from the current capitol, served as the seat of government from 1839 to 1903. A classic Greek Revival structure, it was ...

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Oprah's birthplace - Kosciusko, Mississippi

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Jaimie Bruzenak

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Published on 10-03-2011 12:02 AM

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See the site where Oprah Winfrey was born, as well as the church where she gave her first recitation. In town, you can see the large, modern Boys and Girls Club she gifted to the city. Kosciusko also has a visitor center worth seeing with an exhibit of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish freedom fighter, the town's namesake. Kosciusko ...

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Ruins of Windsor - Port Gibson, Mississippi

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Jaimie Bruzenak

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Published on 06-27-2011 12:14 AM

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23 Corinthian columns are all that remain of what was one of the largest antebellum homes ever built. It was built by Smith Coffee Daniell, II, a wealthy planter. It survived the Civil War, probably because it was a Union hospital, ...

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Shack-up Inn - Clarksdale, Mississippi

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Peter Thody

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Published on 12-17-2012 05:15 AM

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Once a well-kept secret among those "in the know", the Shack-up Inn is now a famous destination for road trippers and blues aficionados looking to stay somewhere that's quite unlike anywhere else. Located just 3 miles south of the official 'crossroads' where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his ...

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Sunken Trace - Port Gibson Mississippi

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Published on 07-09-2011 12:05 AM

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Spend 20 minutes or so walking along this sunken section of the original trace and you get an idea of just how challenging this journey must have been for the traders who followed the road in the 1800s. Narrow, overgrown and, when it's been raining, ...

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Shack-up Inn - Clarksdale, Mississippi

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