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"Beauvoir House. Built in the 1850's - purchased in 1879 by Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America. Here he wrote his monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government' and lived until his death in 1889. Now a Shrine under auspices of Sons of Confederate Veterans of Mississippi and United Daughters of the Confederacy." Exterior view. Side 2.
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"Beauvoir House. Built in the 1850's - purchased in 1879 by Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America. Here he wrote his monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government' and lived until his death in 1889. Now a Shrine under auspices of Sons of Confederate Veterans of Mississippi and United Daughters of the Confederacy." Exterior view. Side 2.
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- Description: "Beauvoir House. Built in the 1850's - purchased in 1879 by Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America. Here he wrote his monumental work 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government' and lived until his death in 1889. Now a Shrine under auspices of Sons of Confederate Veterans of Mississippi and United Daughters of the Confederacy." Exterior view. Side 2.
- Creator(s): Bellingrath Gardens
- Date: 1952
- City/State: Biloxi, Mississippi
- County: Harrison County
- Call Number: PI/2008.0001
- Filename: 118941-photo-2.tif