Now owned by the National Park Service, Melrose is an authentic antebellum town estate (c.1845) complete with slave quarters and other "dependencies," including the kitchen, stables and privies. A guided tour of the house and grounds inform..

Master builder Thomas Rose completed this grand white stucco mansion, with Corinthian columns, 17ft-high ceilings and 50ft-long double parlors, for Irish-immigrant cotton broker and planter Frederick Stanton in 1857. Stanton called his home "Bel..

From the second-story portico of Rosalie (c.1820), visitors get a marvelous view of the Mississippi-that also appealed to invading Union general Walter Gresham when he arrived and commandeered the house as his personal residence for three years begin..

From a distance, this magnificent octagonal "Oriental villa," as its architect, Samuel Sloan, described it, is an elegant shell. Only the nine-room basement floor was ever finished; work on the upper floors was halted in 1861 when the Yanke..

Distinguished by ornately carved magnolia-motif ceiling medallions, Magnolia Hall was built in 1858 and was one of the few Natchez mansions to suffer shelling damage (from a gunboat) during the Civil War. Now owned by the Natchez Garden Club, the hou..

A 400mi National Park Service parkway (no traffic lights, no commercial traffic) running diagonally from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, the Natchez Trace follows an ancient path first traced by buffalo and prehistoric hunters more tha..