Bakery
Building Gallery is proud to present giclees of works of art by Mississippi
artists which
interpret some aspect of Port Gibson’s history . These giclees
are printed in a limited edition of 50 and are guaranteed by the printer
to last for generations.
OUR HISTORY
Port Gibson was once a port on Bayou Pierre. The first people living along the bayou were Native Americans. Some of their mounds are preserved, while others are overgrown, often incorporated into more recent cemeteries for black and white families alike. Our county is crisscrossed with Indian paths, some of which have become the Natchez Trace.
Early settlers planted flax, indigo, crops to eat and cotton to sell. The labor force was made up of enslaved sons and daughters from Africa and impoverished, indentured servants from Ireland and Scotland. Jews who were escaping repression in Western Europe came as itinerant peddlers. The town retains buildings which represent the diversity of our culture. The Bernheimer family built Mississippi National bank on Walnut Street to attest to the contributions of one Jewish Family in Port Gibson.
Old Bank
by Ron Lindsay
Giclee - 22 3/8" x 22 1/4"
$162 (includes s&h)
Port Gibson is famous as the town U.S. Grant said was “too beautiful to burn.” The first shots of the Vicksburg Campaign were fired in the yard of the Shaifer House which is just outside of Port Gibson. The bluff roads are the same as they were when thousands of Union troops marched down; the woods still thick with magnolia, cedar, redbud and dogwood. The trees are draped with Spanish moss.
Shaifer House
by Susan Cox Davis
Giclee - 22 x 21 7/8
$162 (includes s&h)
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LOCAL LINKS
http://kajac2000.blogspot.com/2006/11/port-gibson-paint-day.html
Mississippi Art Colony
http://msartcolony.org/index.htm
OUR HISTORY
Port Gibson was once a port on Bayou Pierre. The first people living along the bayou were Native Americans. Some of their mounds are preserved, while others are overgrown, often incorporated into more recent cemeteries for black and white families alike. Our county is crisscrossed with Indian paths, some of which have become the Natchez Trace.
Early settlers planted flax, indigo, crops to eat and cotton to sell. The labor force was made up of enslaved sons and daughters from Africa and impoverished, indentured servants from Ireland and Scotland. Jews who were escaping repression in Western Europe came as itinerant peddlers. The town retains buildings which represent the diversity of our culture. The Bernheimer family built Mississippi National bank on Walnut Street to attest to the contributions of one Jewish Family in Port Gibson.
Old Bank
by Ron Lindsay
Giclee - 22 3/8" x 22 1/4"
$162 (includes s&h)
Port Gibson is famous as the town U.S. Grant said was “too beautiful to burn.” The first shots of the Vicksburg Campaign were fired in the yard of the Shaifer House which is just outside of Port Gibson. The bluff roads are the same as they were when thousands of Union troops marched down; the woods still thick with magnolia, cedar, redbud and dogwood. The trees are draped with Spanish moss.
Shaifer House
by Susan Cox Davis
Giclee - 22 x 21 7/8
$162 (includes s&h)
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LOCAL LINKS
http://kajac2000.blogspot.com/2006/11/port-gibson-paint-day.html
Mississippi Art Colony
http://msartcolony.org/index.htm