Rosswood Plantation B&B - Lorman, MS

This antebellum bed and breakfast is located near Lorman, Mississippi, 4 miles east of the Natchez Trace on Hwy. 552. A Mississippi Landmark built in 1857 at a cost of $10,735.64 by David Shroder, the architect of Windsor, whose awesome ruins stand nearby. The columned mansion, fully restored, has 14 rooms, 10 fireplaces and 14-foot ceilings including four guest rooms, with canopied beds, antique furnishings, private baths, and satellite TV.

Rosswood Plantation was a thriving cotton plantation of 1250 acres, long before the Civil War, with 105 slaves working the fields. It now has 100 acres of rolling fields and stately trees, where deer and other wildlife abound.

Rosswood Plantation is also about: a Civil War battle, buried treasure, original cotton plantation ledgers, doctor diaries, slave stories and battle accounts. An in-ground swimming pool sits behind the house on the exact spot where the original kitchen house was located. The kitchen house was the only structure destroyed during a skirmish between the North and South.

Don't have time to stay overnight?

Rosswood Plantation Bed and Breakfast is open to the public to tour. Innkeepers, Walt and Jean Hylander will show you all fourteen rooms and tell you about the plantation's remarkable history. Tour hours are Monday - Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: $10 for adults, $3 for children ages 5 to 15. If you are a B&B guest staying overnight the tour is free!