The Ladies' home journal . e close of the golden age ofNatchez, much as Mope Farm and Gloucester marked its begin-ning. From the end of the eighteenth century to the start ofthe (ivil War, the Natchez district was peopled with familiesof fabulous wealth who loved to live elegantly. The shipswhich carried their cotton to the Eastern seaboard, to Englandand the Continent, carried them, too, and brought them backwith the finest of furnishings for their homes and with the mostcosmopolitan ideas for an idyllic life in this faraway community. \ienerations of luuid polishinghave produced a rich ,,ati
The Ladies' home journal . e close of the golden age ofNatchez, much as Mope Farm and Gloucester marked its begin-ning. From the end of the eighteenth century to the start ofthe (ivil War, the Natchez district was peopled with familiesof fabulous wealth who loved to live elegantly. The shipswhich carried their cotton to the Eastern seaboard, to Englandand the Continent, carried them, too, and brought them backwith the finest of furnishings for their homes and with the mostcosmopolitan ideas for an idyllic life in this faraway community. \ienerations of luuid polishinghave produced a rich ,,atina on ihefine eighteerilh-renlury fnrnilnre ojthe Monteigne dining room, wherethe light glitters on lavishly scaledrepousse silver and a delicate / ene-tian chandelier. Esfjeciallyfineisthpair of Sevres <wws on the mantel. ,onteignes entrance hall, uithits marble floor, its harplike halus-trade and its hand-hloched Frenchscenic wallpaper, is one of the moststunning eye-catchers in the wholestunning Natchez
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