IN THE fields alongside Mississippi Highway 49, where the Meredith Freedom Marchers plodded in June, another Delta cotton crop is nearing harvest, continuing a partnership between man and earth that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We set out to metal detect a Mississippi plantation house dating back to 1850, and things got strange fast. From relics and ...

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. Maybe at some point somewhere, but not in frontier Mississippi, author David ...

Natchez is one of those places where the past is never far away. Cotton, slavery, river... The post Natchez, Mississippi: From Hard History to Easygoing Riverfront Charm appeared first on The Daily ...

STARKVILLE — In the interest of not “burying the lead,” let me note that although she never set foot in the state of Mississippi or cast her eyes on the alluvial fan of the mythical and mystic ...