This post was first published January 11, 2016.
Jackson Jambalaya presents Windsor Ruins as never seen before. Many pictures have been taken of the famous Mississippi landmark but none from above. JJ recently acquired a Yuneec Typhoon 500 drone with a 4k camera and made a video of the ruins as the first project. Photographer Rick Guy shot and edited the footage you see below. The video is best seen in high definition. Click on the wheel (settings) on the Youtube frame and select 720. We hope you enjoy this presentation of Windsor Ruins.
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The Daniell family built a plantation home on the site of Windsor Ruins in 1861. The home faced the Mississippi River as the river back then came very close to the site. It was used as a hospital by Union troops during the Civil War. Only one black and white sketch exists of the completed home. It burned down in 1890 after someone dropped a cigar that caught fire. Only the columns and a few iron staircases remained. The Daniell family owned the estate and donated it to the state in 1974. Two of the remaining staircases disappeared and the family donated the remaining staircase to Alcorn State University.
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Beautiful drone photography and beautiful haunting music. Thank you.
Cool. My great-great-grandparents had a plantation near there before and after The War of Northern Aggression.
The Windsor Ruins are the best kept secret in the Magnolia State !
One of my absolute favorite places to visit. The cemetery up the road is built atop an Indian mound in the woods, extremely eery and great for exploring. The state did an excellent job preserving the site of the ruins lately. The Schafer house in Port Gibson was also restored by the state, and now the Vicksburg Nat’l Military Park controls it and it is falling apart. A devastating sight to see.
“Look for it only in books. For it is nothing but a dream remembered. A civilization..gone with the wind.” Margaret Mitchell
Who smoked the cigarette that burn it down
A must see, the ruins are absolutely breathtaking, in the middle of nowhere.
The builder of Windsor also built my great great grand mother’s home. Rosswood on Red Lick road out from Lorman.
Very nice job KF. Saved me a trip!
Me and Mom used to take day trips together. We drove to The Ruins of Windsor several times. Great Mississippi treasure. Great memories…See Mississippi First!
Great post Fish. Thank you.
I neglected to mention that they were very generous by hiring immigrants and provided them housing.
Very cool. Our great-great grandparents probably knew each other.
Don't where you got the notion that no other overhead pictures exist. Have seen many of them over the years. By the way, the untold story and mystery of how the steps wound up at Alcorn University is buried deep. A number of rumors and claims but no recorded documentation of anybody who gifted the steps to Alcorn.
I've been there numerous times. On one visit, there was a family member there painting a memory of the ruins and I asked him how those steps wound at Alcorn. His response was, "I have no idea".
Maybe not the first video but a very finely done one and worth the watch.
If you haven't experienced it, go on a cool spring or fall morning with a thermos of coffee, an hour well spent.
If you haven't been in recently years, the preservation of the site is much improved and worth another visit.
A civil war soldier, Union side I think, made the sketch of the home. Was not discovered until a great many years later. Someone asked who was responsible for the fire. Don’t believe that’s known, but the fire started following a party so it’s inferred someone did poor job of disposing of cigar or the like. The ruins are amazing. Went couple years ago and the state was erecting a gazebo or something. And they’ve fenced off the ruins. For years you could walk among them.
A nice little road trip is to go down and see Windsor ruins, then go. Have some delicious fried chicken at the country store, and then drive 61 all the way up to Vicksburg and get some daiquiris to go in Delta
I always thought it would be cool if a replica of it was built. You got to admire the architecture of houses like that.
Hey, who fired on Fort Sumter to start the “War of Northern Aggression”? Care to recite Mississippi’s Articles of Secession for us?
@9:07 AM
Go read some books. The Northern Agression began long before the attack on Fort Sumter. There were Federal sanctions and embargoes on Southern produced goods. There was John Bull openly arming slaves and trying to start a homegrown uprising modeled after the Haitian revolution.
Remember that the nation declared independence from England because of taxation. Secession happened for the same reason.
There is a lot of history that is not tought. You have to find it out for yourself.
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