page_title: Windsor Ruins
section_title: Historic site
hierarchical_section_title: Windsor Ruins / Historic site
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail showing cast iron steps from Windsor Ruins. Stairway now located at Oakland Chapel, Alcorn State University, Claiborne County, Mississippi, USA
context_page_description: Windsor Ruins are in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States, about 10 miles southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. The ruins consist of 23 standing Corinthian columns of the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion ever built in the state. The mansion stood from 1861 to 1890, when it was destroyed by fire. The 2.1-acre site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1985.
context_section_description: When Catherine Daniell died in 1903, her daughter, Priscilla Daniell, inherited the mansion property.  Priscilla married Joseph Magruder, and the mansion site remained in the Magruder family until 1974, when they donated 2.1 acres (0.85 ha), containing the mansion ruins, to the state of Mississippi.  The historic site contains 23 standing columns and 5 partial columns; it is administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
  Through the years, three of the cast iron stairways, that survived the 1890 fire, disappeared from the site.  The fourth stairway was moved to Alcorn State University and serves as the entrance to Oakland Memorial Chapel.
  North of Windsor ruins is a cemetery where members of the Daniell and Freeland families have been buried since the early 19th century. The earliest grave is that of Frisby Freeland (1747 – 1819), an American Revolutionary War soldier.
caption: Cast iron stairway from Windsor Ruins
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