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Mississippi River Town Opens Pre-Civil War Mansions 

Natchez Spring Pilgrimage, March 13 - April 17, 2004
 
NATCHEZ, MS. - Feb. 5, 2004 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- Natchez Pilgrimage Tours
(www.natchezpilgrimage.com) invites lovers of history and beautiful things to the seventy-
second year of the finest house tours in the South.  Southern belles in hoop skirts.  Opulent
mansions and plantation homes. The majestic Mississippi River.  A town where history lives.

The splendor of the pre-Civil War South will once again come to life in Natchez with the 2004
Natchez Spring Pilgrimage.  Twenty nine pre-Civil War mansions will open to the public for
guided tours March 13 through April 17.  Many of these grand historic houses are private
residences which open to visitors only during the annual Spring and Fall Pilgrimages.

For more than 70 years, Natchez has opened its arms to lovers of history, architecture and the
decorative arts, and visitors have lost their hearts to this beautiful old City on the
Mississippi River.  Natchez has become synonymous with the term 'Antebellum mansion,' and
anyone who visits the city soon realizes why this is so.

With more pre-1860 buildings than any other city its size in the United States, Natchez
provides visitors escorted tours through 18th and 19th-century country houses, suburban villas
and grand mansions, all furnished with exquisite antiques and many   surrounded by old gardens
and parks.  Hoopskirted hostesses conduct tours and interpret the rooms, furnishings and
history of each house.

Houses open daily for morning and afternoon tours of three or four houses each.  Since the
schedule of houses changes each day, tour passes are color-coded. Daily tours include elaborate
town homes, suburban villas, and  plantation-style country houses. A three house pass is $21,
four houses cost $28. Longwood the most popular house in the Southeast, is open daily for $8.

Every evening throughout the Spring Pilgrimage features live entertainment, including the
colorful "Confederate Pageant".  More than two hundred performers in  authentic period costumes
portray in music and dance scenes from Natchez's history  prior to the Civil War.  The
"Southern Road to Freedom" is a stirring musical tribute to the African-American experience in
Natchez. "Southern Exposure", a 1950s Broadway show spoofing the Pilgrimage, the town and its
people has delighted visitors for more than forty years. All performance tickets are $12
person.

Many of Natchez's historic houses also offer bed-and-breakfast accommodations in country
plantations and elegant townhouses.

Information about tour tickets, performances, group rates and bed-and-breakfast reservations
may be obtained by contacting Natchez Pilgrimage Tours, Canal at State  Street, at (800)
647-6742 or (601)446-6631. http://www.natchezpilgrimage.com


	MEDIA CONTACT:
	John Saleeby 
	of Natchez Pilgrimage Tours 
	tours@natchezpilgrimage.com
	+1-601-446-6631 

 
/NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs available; travel writers, 
editors invited for complimentary tours./ 
 	

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