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The pillars of Windsor Ruins, a haunting skeleton of what was once the most impressive antebellum home in Mississippi.
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Windsor Ruins
AturnwestofftheparkwayontoRte.552leadsalongaquietback-countryroadtoWindsor
Ruins, the haunting skeleton of what was once the largest and most impressive antebellum
home in Mississippi. Completed in 1861 at the then-staggering cost of $175,000, Windsor
served as an observation post for Confederate troops and, later, as a hospital for the Union
Army. Ironically, the building survived the Civil War intact, only to be destroyed in 1890
byafireignitedbyacarelesssmoker.Today,allthatremainsoftheonce-magnificentman-
sion is 23 weathered Corinthian columns, their ornate iron capitals touching nothing but
the deep blue southern sky.
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Port Gibson
FromWindsorRuinsthedrivecurvesnortheastwardtorejointheparkway,viaRte.18,near
milepost 40.Justbeforethejunction, youpassthroughhistoric PortGibson,thetownGen-
eral Ulysses S. Grant reportedly decreed was “too beautiful to burn” during his march to
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