- Where:
- Natchez, Mississippi
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When:-
Saturday March 14, 2020 - Tuesday April 14, 2020
March 16: Natchez Pilgrimage Tours Director Eugenie Cates said effective immediately, all Spring Pilgrimage house tours and evening events such as the “Save the Hall Ball” and “Royal Evening at Longwood” performances and practices would be postponed until hopefully no later than May depending on when the pandemic subsides.
Nineteen antebellum Natchez homes, all private residences, open their doors to visitors during the five-week 2020 Natchez Spring Pilgrimage.
Hostesses, in period costume, welcome visitors to three houses each morning and three more each afternoon. Or, you can visit one or two homes of your choice. Several mansion and museums are also on tour during the Spring Pilgrimage.
Morning tours: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Afternoon tours: 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Tickets to any of the morning or afternoon tours or individual homes can be purchased at the Natchez Visitors' Center or online.
Below are some of the B&B homes on tour during the Natchez Spring Pilgrimage of Antebellum Homes. Note: if you stay overnight at one of the B&B's on tour during pilgrimage, people visiting the home do not go to the guest's area.
Pleasant Hill B&B
Pleasant Hill was originally built by John Henderson in 1835, a prosperous merchant, publisher of the local newspaper, and a founder of Natchez' First Presbyterian Church. The original home was built on property that is now the location of Magnolia Hall. Over a two-year period during the 1850s Pleasant Hill was moved one block south on log rollers by oxen teams.
Choctaw Hall B&B
Choctaw Hall was built around 1836 and features a blend of Greek Revival to Federal styles. There are four floors with the B&B's four guest suites residing on the ground floor. The top three floors of the home are connected by a swirling oval staircase. Double porches with white columns bookend the front and back of house.
Brandon Hall B&B
Formally a working cotton plantation, Brandon Hall is located adjacent to the scenic Natchez Trace less than 10 miles north of downtown Natchez. This historic landmark is nestled in a secluded park like setting with rolling hills, native plants, beautiful gardens and a stocked pond.
The land on which Brandon Hall now stands first passed into private ownership as a royal grant from the Spanish King Carlos III in 1788. In 1853, Gerard Brandon III and his wife Charlotte began construction of Brandon Hall which was completed in 1856.
The Burn B&B
Circa 1834, The Burn is the historic home of the John Walworth family for more than 100 years. The only exception was the three years that Union forces occupied the home as a hospital upon evicting the Walworths.
A book, Pilgrimage: A Tale of Old Natchez, has been written about The Burn and the Walworth family.
Linden B&B
Linden sits on seven park-like acres halfway between the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway and the downtown Natchez business district.
Come stay at this historic, antebellum home circa 1790, whose front door was said to be copied for the door of Scarlet's Tara in "Gone With the Wind". Your innkeeper will charm you with the history and stories of Linden which has been in her family since 1849.
More info and to purchase tickets, see: www.natchezpilgrimage.com
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