Jefferson Davis Home

03-21-2014

We are still guests of the Biloxi Elk’s Lodge and have decided to stay two more nights. Today we rode our bikes 4 miles along Beach Blvd to the home of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the confederacy. We spent several hours touring Beauvoir as the house is called and also the grounds, and confederate cemetery. We also watched a couple short films about the history of Beauvoir and President Jefferson in his Presidential library which is also on the property. 

Beauvoir is located just across Beach Blvd from the gulf; its floor is 23 above sea level. Even at that height Katrina flood waters entered the house and its winds blew off all the porches. The 150 year old house survived and is being restored by its owner, The Son’s of the Confederacy.

 Almost all of the other old mansions that once lined the shore did not fare as well, privately owned almost all of them are gone forever. Ten years after Katrina brick steps and concrete driveways are all that remain on the many empty lots where charming southern homes once stood