Biloxi, Mississippi - Confederate President Jeff Davis' Home
Field Report by the Roadsideamerica.com Team
- Address:
- 2244 Beach Blvd., Biloxi, MS [Show Map]
- Directions:
- Exit 44 off of I-10, 8 miles S on Rt 15, right on Rt 90.
- Hours:
- Destroyed in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Severely damaged in 2005 hurricane, is open again. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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A new white picket fence now surrounds the property and replicas of the cottages are being built. Plans are for a new presidential library to be built out of the flood plain. A rose garden laid out has been marked out like the one set out by Mrs. Davis but lost to time. The goal is to return the Beauvoir property to the 1880s when Jefferson Davis lived there.
Beauvoir is also one of two or three antebellum homes on the beach that survived Katrina -- go see it as soon as possible. [Jane, 09/21/2008]
Historic Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Shrine in Biloxi, Mississippi, was set ablaze last week, and investigators are calling it a deliberate act of arson. Fortunately, an alert off-duty firefighter noticed the smoke, and put out the inferno with a water-filled trash bag.... [06/13/2004] Complete News Story
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