The history of Belmont begins with the Worthington brothers - William, Elisha, Isaac and William – who were natives of Kentucky. In the early 19th century they all purchased vast amounts of land along ...

Mississippi is home to plenty of antebellum and plantation homes that have brought celebrants from near and far to enjoy the wedding of their dreams. But some national websites that help brides plan ...

A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement “Natchez swallowed a master ...

A historic plantation in southwest Mississippi has been sold to a New Orleans family that plans to preserve it, according to the real estate group involved in the transaction. Cold Spring Plantation ...

Sandra Sojourner was driving her daughter, Melanie, to school early one morning in mid-1970s Mississippi when the young white child saw something alarming at a major intersection in Adams County: a ...

In 2011, Elvin Shields returned to Oakland Plantation where he grew up in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, after nearly 50 years. He had spent his teenage years on this land working as a sharecropper ...

"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket. Text on verso facing each photograph. Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe ...