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Pilgrimage Guide
MUSEUM
of
HISTORY AND MEMORABILIA
The Biedenham Candy Company
Where Coca-Cola was bottled for the first time in 1894.
Homemade Candy, Penny Candies and A Full Line of Coca Cola® Memorabilia. Mail Order Catalog Available.
1107 Washington Street • Vicksburg, Mississippi • (601) 638-6514
CANTON
9~(ome of Edison's 'WeRs ScfiooC of Arts & Crafts
1993 Canton Calendar of Events
March		10	Elmore James Hickory Street
27	Canton Pilgrimage		Festival
	Main Street Merchants Fashion	October	
	Show & Easter Basket Buffet	14	Canton Flea Market Arts &
	Canton Pepsi Pops		Crafts Show
28	Canton Pilgrimage	30	Children's Safe Halloween
May			Festival
13	Canton Flea Market Arts &	November	
	Crafts Show	1	Winter Festival of Lights Begins
29	Frog Towne 5-K Run	27	Victorian Christmas Festival
June			Begins
TBA	Quilt Show	28	Merchant Open House
July		December	
2-4	Mississippi Championship Hot	2	Canton Christmas Parade
	Air Balloon Fest	31	Victorian Christmas Festival Ends
3	Lunch On The Lawn -		
	Courthouse Square	January	
4	4th of July Family Celebration	15	Winter Festival of Lights Ends
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HALTOM
Specialists in Appraising • Consulting • Marketing Listed in WHO’S WHO IN LUXURY REAL ESTATE
BOB HALTOM & CO., REALTORS
107 N. Commerce St., P.O. Box 1341, Natchez, MS 39121 (601)442-3718, (800)535-0963
HALTOM
HAS IT/
LOST ARCHITECTURAL
TREASURES
it was to his old friend’s refuge that Aaron Burr retreated while awaiting trial on treason charges in 1807. Legend tells of his romance there with a local woman, Madeline Price, and his hasty departure moments ahead of an angry mob on a storm-swept night.
Windy Hill was purchased in 1818 by Colonel Gerard C. Brandon, intended as an elaborate wedding gift for his daughter as she married into the Stanton family. For the next one hundred and fifty years, the old home remained in that family. Male descendants dwindled, and by the 1910s, three elderly sisters were struggling to maintain the dignity of the collapsing house in a changing world. Abandoned totally for many years, Windy Hill Manor was dismantled in the 1960s. Its magnificent unsupported spiral staircase, a miracle of craftmanship, resisted all attempts to pull it down and finally had to be taken apart board by board. Not a brick remains to mark the place once occupied by Windy Hill; the ghosts of the famous and the infamous have the bayou on Liberty Road all to themselves now.
Two of Mississippi’s most unusual and romantic homes were built by the same family in Madison County. John Johnstone, son of North Carolina’s governor, brought his wife and two daughters to the developing state in the mid-1800s. The older daughter and her husband chose to avoid the prevailing mania for Greek Revival homes, designing their Ingleside instead as a rambling Italian villa with extended curved passageways to the dependencies. T he imposing central tower led visitors into a home of such unusual elegance that it was considered an exceptional structure even by the high standards of the day. Supposedly, it was at Ingleside that the younger Johnstone sister met the dashing Henry Vick. The heartrending story of their engagement and his death in a duel have become a part of Mississippi folklore known as the
20A MARCH/APRII. 1993