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Subject: Re: Dr. Haller Nutt - Longwood Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi
Date: 16 Jan 2005 13:08:21 -0700
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"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sun., Jan. 16, 2005 H-7
"A trace of Natchez
Mississippi town offers a trip back in time By Jessie Milligan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
..Natchez, Miss., the heart of the old Southern cotton kingdom...
Visit the villa named Longwood & you'll see a vacant octagon-shaped brick home. Construction stopped in 1861 when Northern workers dropped their hammers to pick up guns. The family of Haller & Julia Nutt lived in the basement during the war while their uncompleted five-story dream loomed above them.
Haller Nutt had dreamed of a day when he could climb the staircase to a rooftop observation deck perched beneath a Byzantine-Moorish dome & gaze out at the lowland Louisianna fields where cotton was grown-& is to this day. Instead, he died of pneumonia in his basement before the war was through.
In a town eager to revamp old treasure, Longwood still stands uncompleted.
"Leave it as a monument to the heart-rending break of the War Between the States. Let it mark the end of an era." says the Natchez community group that maintains the structure....
These homes are open year-round, & during Natchez's Spring & Fall Pilgrimages visitors can even gain entry to some private homes...." not my family
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