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Antiquing Tour along Mississippi River
If you have the passion for antiques and collectible shopping, by touring along the Mississippi River towns, beautiful and diverse highways and country roads, you can get all what you are looking for. From electric mix of pottery and antiques to myriad of nineteenth and early twentieth century glassware and furniture you will get a collection of all of them.
Provided below is the list of areas best for antiquing:
- Travel on to the home of William Faulkner and his beloved home "Rowan Oak" in Oxford presently maintained for memorial and educational purposes. Oxford is also home of the historic University of Mississippi, better known throughout America as "Ole Miss.
- Drive on to Holly Springs, where the streets are lined with so many mansions that Salem Avenue was known in the 1850's as "Silk Stocking Row."
- If you drive from Memphis to Southaven, you get a lot of antiques and collectables there too.
- Travel further to visit Corinth which has witnessed the bloodiest battle in Mississippi history, known as the Battle of Corinth and while on tour do visit the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center.
- Leave Corinth and travel to Tupelo, known worldwide as the birthplace of the "King," Elvis Presley. Visit his birthplace, and the Elvis Presley Museum, which houses the most unique private collection of Elvis memorabilia in the world.
- Drive from Tupelo to Columbus, the birthplace of internationally known playwright Tennessee Williams, and the location of the Mississippi University for Women, the first public university for women in America.
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