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Belmont Plantation

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Belmont, one of the few antebellum houses remaining in the Mississippi Delta, was built about 1857 for W.W. Worthington. Federal troops plundered it in 1863. Belmont Hunting Lodge was founded there in 1946 by Governor Dennis Murphree.
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