Windsor Ruin Cache Traditional Cache
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Located at Windsor Ruin near Port Gibson, Mississippi
Windsor was one of the most magnificent homes in the antebellum South. It was the home of Smith Coffee Daniell, II, a wealthy planter and was built between 1859-1861. Twenty-three monolithic
columns are all that remain of the largest and finest antebellum mansion ever built in Mississippi.Windsor ruins were immortalized
by Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Cliff in the film "Raintree County."
Windsor narrowly escaped destruction during the Civil War when Ulysses S. Grant's troops mistakenly fired on the veranda chairs assuming they were Confederate soldiers. But in 1890, the three-story mansion, flanked by 29 columns, was destroyed by fire from a careless houseguest's cigarette. Only the skeletal brick columns and fragments of ironwork remain of what
was Mississippi's largest plantation home. One of the four iron staircases can be seen at Alcorn State University campus chapel.
Cache container is a clear .5 gallon rubbermaid type container. It has a large, green Geocaching.com sticker on it.
You do NOT have to cross any fences to find the cache. Please rehide the cache as well as you found it. Be wary of tourists, this secluded location sees lots of traffic.
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