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"West Point"
English version: Dec 31st, 2024
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"West Point" - Historic Jefferson College, Natchez, MS
Location Overview "West Point"
"West Point" - Historic
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West Point, NY, front lawn, drill ground, barracks outside and inside, several other rooms |
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Comparisons Movie To Reality
Film: parade ground on front lawn real: Historic Jefferson College, west and east wings
Movie: front lawn real: east wing building and president's house, front side
Movie: west wing, back side real: west wing, back side
Movie: barracks real: kitchen and side building
real: same view before renovation
Movie: left barracks, balcony real: behind left wing, the balcony on the upper right
Movie: behind the main buildings real: east wing, back view (underbrush removed)
Movie: horse
trail
real: nature edicational path in adjecting woods,
bridge over St. Catherine's Creek
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Location Overview "West Point"
The barracks on the right, with cadets room in the upper floor via outside stairs and balcony, building with "chemistry lab" in ground floor (Ashton, Woodward, Charles and others) on upper right, fromt building to the left with informary and other rooms. Between the buildings the paved drill court, below that a lawn (instructions on sabers etc.). The great parade lawn is on the left to the front buildings outside of this plan.
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Historic
http://mdah.state.ms.us/hprop/hjc.html
Visitors: building 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., park from sun-up to sun-down, entrance free.
Today "Historic Jefferson College" near Natchez, MS was founded in 1802 in the state of Mississippi as a school for higher education and named after the U.S. President and chair of the American Philosophic Society, Thomas Jefferson. After some difficult financing, the college opened on Jan 7th, 1811 starting with 15 students. When then 10 years old Jefferson Davis was there in 1818, the institution was in full use. 1819, the east wing was completed. 1830, one building was aquired my the Methodist Church, and 1839 the new West Wing was constructed. The institution was - except the Civil War period from 1863 to 1866 - constantly used als a college until it's closure in 1864, being for some time named "Jefferson Military College". Today, it is listed in the Register of National Landmarks and is open to visitors.
The building used for the movie as "barracks" and contained the bunk room for the cadets originally was the kitchen building for the college. Shortly before the filming, it was reconstructed in original fashion.
Real: Historic Jefferson College, aerial view © Google Maps
The barracks building for the cadets is on the upper left; the drill court lies
in the west wing's shadow
Alice Peet's wooden house was a backdrop and located in the center of this
picture between the single tree
at the path and the group of trees to the right of it.
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West Point Chapel
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West Point, NY, Chapel inside and outside |
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Comparisons Movie To Reality
Movie: West Point Chapel, outside real: Christ Church, outside
Movie: West Point Chapel, chancel real: Christ Church, chancel with glass window
Movie: West Point Chapel, chancel real: Christ Church, left of chancel
Die graduation ceremony with the assignments of the graduations to the varios parts of the army was filned in and outside of Christ Church at Natches, MS. The small episcopal church im purely gotic style without a steeple was erected on Church Hill in 1857, the place having been populated by the church community since the 1790s. A first church was there by 1820. The today building was never modernized or renovated, even the benches are from construction years, as well as the organ that presumanly was manufactured in Scotland.
The church resides at the intersection of Church Hill Road with Highway 553, some piece north of Natches, MS on Church Hill. Services today are only once a month.
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