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Pilgrimage Guide
Like Malmaison, LaGrange was lost to fire, but two of those huge columns stand today in mute testimony to the grandeur of that home.
Built in the very earliest years of the ninenteenth century, Natchez’s Windy Hill was a gracious structure with a windowed portico supported by four massive Tuscan columns. Aaron Burr retreated here while awaiting trial on treason charges in 1807.
Woodville’s LaGrange was the family home of James A. Ventress, the guiding force behind the establishment of the University of Mississippi.
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Windy Hill Manor was dismantled in the 1960s. Its magnificent unsupported spiral staircase, a miracle of craftmanship, resisted all attempts to pull it down and finally had to be taken apart board by board.
LaGrange was lost to fire, but two of those huge columns stand today in mute testimony to the grandeur of that home.


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