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The Historic Jefferson Hotel

at The Jefferson, a French Quarter-style hotel with a balcony overlooking the town’s red brick streets, you may come across a few unpaid guests. Like the Mill children, who died there as 7-year-olds in the late 1800s, most likely when the building was used as a warehouse for Jefferson’s booming cotton industry.

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