# Offbeat Places You'd Like To Visit

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832 "2009-01-04T18:02:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/offbeat-places-youd-like-to-visit/479832/81 "2009-01-07T05:38:03Z")

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> [@Mississippienne](#):
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> I was born in Natchez. It is an amazingly beautiful city. If you get a chance, go north on Hwy 61 a ways to Port Gibson, and see the Windsor Ruins. You have to drive along a winding road way out into the woods to find the columns standing there like a long-forgotten pagan temple. If you go about thirty minutes further north on 61 to Vicksburg, check out Rev. Dennis’ house, an ornate white-and-red structure topped by a double-headed eagle. He built it for his wife, Margaret, who refused to marry him until he built her a beautiful house.

The best weekend of my life was spent in Natchez although I have been several other times. I was invited to a Confederate ball along with several hundred other people in honor of a sorority sister of my wife.

Oh boy, I have no idea how much that weekend cost the parents but it had to be hundreds of thousands of dollars and no expense was spared for the guests for 2 1/2 days. I have always heard that Natchez was near the top of places with millionaires per capita in the U.S. and I can believe it. That place is beautiful and very genteel. That isn’t something most people associate with Mississippi but I would love to live their in one of their antebellum mansions.

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