Windsor Plantation

Union Officer's Sketch of Windsor Plantation House

These stately columns are all that remain of Windsor, one of the most magnificent homes in the antebellum South. Built between 1859-1861, the plantation was the home of wealthy planter, Smith Coffee Daniell, II.

Windsor survived the war, becoming a prominent landmark along the Mississippi River. Mark Twain wrote of its elegance in his treatise, "Life on the Mississippi." But its elegance did not last, for Windsor was destroyed by fire in 1890 when a careless party guest threw a lit cigarette into a waste basket. Windsor ruins were later immortalized by Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff in the film "Raintree County."

 

Windsor Ruins

NPS Photo

 

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