Mount Repose is a historic mansion in Pine Ridge, Adams County near

Natchez, Mississippi Natchez ( ) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,520 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was ...

, USA. Mount Repose was one of the girlhood homes of Elizabeth Bisland, the "Cosmopolitan" magazine correspondent who raced Nellie Bly, the reporter for the "World" newspaper, around the world in 1889 - 1890.

History

Mount Repose was built in 1824 for William Bisland, on lands granted his father, John Bisland, by Spanish Crown in 1782. William's elder brother Peter built

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. It has been listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

since June 19, 1979.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Houses completed in 1824 Houses in Adams County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub