The Historic Natchez Series

Longwood
Natchez, Mississippi

Bass Pecan Company proudly announces the second collectible tin in a series of Historic Natchez homes to be featured with three delicious flavor choices of our famous Bass pecans. This year's tin features Longwood, the largest octagonal house in America. It is a superb example of the mid-nineteenth century "Oriental Villa" style. The mansion was designed in 1859 for wealthy cotton planter Haller Nutt and his wife, Julia, by Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan. A great octagonal rotunda is open to the entire six stories, and crowning the whole is a Byzantine-Moorish dome with a 24-foot finial. Work progressed rapidly until April, 1861, when the Civil War began, then Sloan's Philadelphia craftsmen dropped their tools and fled North. With local workers, Haller Nutt completed the basement level as living quarters for his family. He died in 1864, but Julia and her eight children lived on in the basement until her death in 1897. Many of the family's original furnishings are displayed there today. Longwood is maintained in its unfinished state by the Pilgrimage Garden Club as a poignant reminder of past glories and tragedies.

Learn more about the combination tins available...Southern Flavors selection or Bass's finest Natural Pecan Halves or Mixed Pecan Flavors with a three flavor combination!