The houses are concentrated in Vicksburg and Natchez, two towns on the Mississippi River, made rich by “King Cotton” and “Queen Sugar”, the two crops that flourished in the rich river soil and made white plantation owners and their families rich, and brought prosperity and the trappings of civilisation to the South over a period between 1820 and 1860. Natchez was one of the … [Read more...] about Antebellum houses in the Southern USA