Historic Longwood Exploration
Longwood is just one of the elegant houses that graces the historic district of Natchez . This octagonal house epitomizes the rise and fall of the South . As the Civil War began , the workmen stopped construction and the house was never completed . View the finished first floor with original family furnishings and the upper five stories that are still a work in progress .
Cotton & Music , Then & Now
Nineteen historical buildings , dating from 1790 ’ s to 1900 , are a restored tribute to Frogmore Cotton Plantation & Gins , a modern 1,800-acre working cotton estate with a computerized farm and gin . Meet the owner who will explain the farming and ginning operations . Participate in picking cotton and removing the seeds and tour a rare , steam engine gin listed on the National Register of Historic Properties . Be seated in the hand-hewn log cabin and listen to narration and the vocalist ’ s songs , highlighting the history of southern plantations , including the Constitution , Emancipation Proclamation , and the enslaved and planter families . Explore the cotton fields and authentic cabins to learn the origin of southern cuisine , the day-to-day operations and how their labor force evolved into sharecropping , a way of life for 100 years .
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