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Natchez
3 Night Mystery Tour
Itinerary
- Day
01
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Afternoon arrival. Go to the Natchez Welcome
Center & see a 20-minute film about
Natchez. Then local tour guides will take
the group on a brief city tour before checking
into the hotel.
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Classical Concert
Social at Stone House where you will sip
your wine or mint julip while relaxing to
music of Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Brahms
and other great masters played on the 1903
Steinway grand piano. After concert a house
tour is included.
- 8:00
pm - 10:00 pm
Travel to Monmouth Plantation where you
will enjoy a candlelight five-course gourmet
dinner served in the Mansion. Daily menus
incorporate regional favorites that showcase
Monmouth’s fabulous contemporary southern
cuisine.
- Day
02
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9:00
am - 11:00 am Natchez Cemetery Tour.
For almost two centuries people of all nations,
races, and creeds have been interred in
the 100-acre cemetery. Extraordinary citizens-
military heroes, politicians, physicians,
builders, bishops, and artisans-share their
final resting places with thousands.
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm Natchez in Historic
Photographs Tour. The World’s most
important and unusual collections of historic
photographs. Representing the work of three
photographers, the pictures tell the story
of a small Southern town on the Mississippi
River from the Civil War era to World War
II. More than 500 photographs hang on the
walls at beautiful Stratton Chapel, with
captions to take the visitor on a journey
both poignant and entertaining
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tour of Longwood
House. ca. 1860-1861. Lower Woodville
Rd. The grandest octagonal house in America.
Superb example of mid-19th century Oriental
style. Designed for Haller and Julia Nutt,
it retains original furnishings. Finial
atop dome was reconstructed in 1993 by the
Pilgrimage Garden Club. National Historic
Landmark.
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free time for rest
or downtown shopping
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Walking Ghost Tour
of Natchez. Take an exciting evening stroll
and enjoy the darker side of antebellum
Natchez. Walk the streets where passions,
wealth, and evil once collided. The guided
ghostly tours take you through the beautiful
historic district of Natchez.
- 8:00
pm - 10:00 pm Enjoy dinner at King’s
Tavern. Dining with a story. In this historic
building you can enjoy cuisine from fried
shrimp to Prime Rib.
- Day
03
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9:00 am - 12:00 pm Frogmore Cotton
Plantation tour of an 1800-acre working
cotton
plantation with gins, slave row and 19 dependencies.
Contrast a working cotton plantation of
the early 1800’s with a modern cotton
plantation and gin of today. Listen to the
slave customs, secret music, and their surprising
relationships with the master, mistress,
and overseer. Walk through authentically
furnished slave quarters, rare steam gin,
and other plantation dependencies.
- 12:00
pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Tour of Rosalie
House. ca. 1820. Located on the Mississippi
Bluff near the site of the Natchez Indians'
massacre of the French at Fort Rosalie.
It was the headquarters of the Union Army
during the War Between the States. Owned
by the Mississippi State Society DAR. A
National Historic Landmark.
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Free time for rest
or downtown shopping
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Southern Ceremonies
& Celebrations in the 1800’s where
you will visit three Antebellum structures
which are celebrating 3 ceremonies of a
time gone by. At Stanton Hall, prepare for
the wedding of a daughter. Magnolia Hall,
pay your respects on the day of Mr. Henderson’s
funeral. Holy Family Catholic Church, become
a part of the African American congregation
and join in celebrating the founding of
their church.
- 8:00
pm - 10:00 pm Tonight enjoy dinner at Cock
of the Walk where good eats overlooking
the Mississippi. Feast on Catfish, Chicken
& good ole veggies while listening to
the tunes on the piano.
- Day
04 (Nov 11 & 18)
- 9:00
am - 11:00 am Tour Auburn House. ca.
1812. This imposing
mansion set in the midst of Duncan Park
is famous for its architecture and its beautiful
free-standing stairway unsupported to the
second floor. Owned by the City of Natchez
and operated by the Auburn Garden Club.
National Historic Landmark.
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11:00 am Check-out of hotel & depart
for home.
Itinerary
Included Features:
- 3
Nights accommodations including all taxes
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Breakfast each morning inclusive of tax &
gratuities
- Bellman
gratuities in & out
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Sightseeing Tours & services of local professional
tour guides each day
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Natchez City Tour
- Tour
3 of Natchez’s most beautiful antebellum
homes (Longwood, Rosalie & Auburn)
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Natchez City Cemetery Tour
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Ghost tour of the beautiful historic district
of Natchez
- Natchez
in Historic Photographs tour
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Southern Ceremonies & Celebrations in the
1800’s
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Classical Concert Social in the Stone House
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Frogmore Cotton Plantation tour
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Dinner Meals
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Monmouth Plantation
- King’s
Tavern
- Cock
of the Walk
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One comp based on single occupancy for your
tour escort.
For
Prices & Availability Call Sweet Magnolia
ToursToll free 1-866-320-5295 / Local 901-525-2842
/ Fax 901-525-2901 or email Memphis@SweetMagnoliaTours.com
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