Mount Repose (Natchez, Mississippi)

Mount Repose
Nearest cityNatchez, Mississippi
Coordinates31°38′9.34″N 91°20′40.42″W / 31.6359278°N 91.3445611°W / 31.6359278; -91.3445611
Area242 acres (98 ha)
Built1824 (1824)
NRHP reference No.79001294
Added to NRHPJune 19, 1979

Mount Repose is a historic mansion in Pine Ridge, Adams County near Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Mount Repose was one of the girlhood homes of Elizabeth Bisland, the "Cosmopolitan" magazine correspondent who raced Nellie Bly, the reporter for the "World" newspaper, around the world in 1889 - 1890.

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