by MILLS LANE, 204 pages, 244 b/w illustrations Soon after the Revolution, settlers swept to the banks of the Mississippi River and began drifting down from Kentucky and Tennessee into northern Alabama, another center of early settlement. After the last Indians were removed in the late 1830's, another wave of settlers flooded into central Alabama and central and northern Mississippi. Mississippi and Alabama enjoyed their greatest prosperity during the heyday of the Greek Revival and produced a surprising variety and quality of buildings in the relatively brief period that remained before the outbreak of the Civil War. With the hottest, longest and most humid summers in the region, these states produced the most "Southern" buildings of the Old South, surrounded by monumental porticoes and grand colonnades. Among the famous and sometimes surprising buildings to be found in this book are Auburn, the first house with a monumental Classical portico in the Mississippi Territory, built by a Yankee from Massachusetts; Belle Mont, a small but elegant Palladian farmhouse built for a Virginian who came to early Alabama; Waverley, a Greek Revival plantation house outside Columbus, Mississippi, featuring a seventy-foot-high central hall surrounded by balconies rising four stories to a cupola; Gaineswood, another Greek Revival plantation house, in Alabama, this one enlarged from a log cabin that can still be found within its now palatial walls; the Chapel of the Cross at Mannsdale, Mississippi, the first "correct" gothic church in the Territory, copied from a magazine published in New York City, copying a specific medieval church in England; and Longwood, the largest and most luxurious octagonal house in America, but one left incomplete when the Northern workmen who were building it fled back home after the outbreak of the Civil War. Like other books in this series, we find here that most of the South's greatest buildings were built by Northerners, whose contributions to Southern society and architecture have long been unappreciated. Mississippi & Alabama isbn 0-88322-038-5 hardcover$65.00 The Beehive Foundation 208 West Harris Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 These books are published without profit as an educational service. Keywords: The Beehive Foundation, The Beehive Press, Books About the South, Southern History, books, gift books, coffee-table books, coffee table books, presents, publiser, publishing, press, architecture, civil war, old south, slavery, southern plantations, documentary histories, restoration, Savannah, Georgia, scholar, historian, author, Mills Lane, Mills Bee Lane, Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Architecture of the Old South, Charleston, confederacy, colonial, revolutionary war, sherman, greek revival, romantic, antebellum, federal, Free Joe, Trouble in July, I am a Fugitive from the Georgia Chain Gang, Robert E. Burns, a milestone in the publishing of books on georgia and the south, books that are artistic, important and beautiful, bee-hive, behive, small press, non-profit, christmas gifts, birthday gifts, birthday presents.