Museum Shop
BOOKS, CD's, DVD's, GIFTS & MORE . . Woodville, Wilkinson County, and Mississippi
We have a bookshop at the Wilkinson County Museum on the court house square on Boston Row and we have all of our
publications and items for sale as well in our antiques mall and cafe at the Main Street Market at the corner of Main Street and Royal Oak
on the opposite corner of the square.
All of our publications and books are also available right here on this website! Orders will be sent usually within a day or two...and we offer the
convenience of PayPal. If you prefer, you can also send us a note and a check by mail...to Museum Shop, PO Box 1055, Woodville,
MS 39669, (601) 888-7151. For complete information and price lists, you are invited to write or call the Museum office.
Let us know if we don't have a book you want and we will special order it for you!
| Henry Howard: Louisiana's Architect by Robert Brantley with Victor McGee, Published 2015, The Historic New Orleans Collection and The Princeton Architectual Press, New York; 350 pages, full color; a comprehensive survey of Howards work |  |
$60.00 | |
| The Plantation World of Wilkinson County Mississippi 1792-2012
By Stella Pitts and Ernesto Caldeira; 316 pp, full color, 450+ photographs, about 50 plantation chapters, 9 x 12, hard cover, LIMITED EDITION. $65.00 |
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$65.00 | |
| The Journal of Wilkinson County History Publications | |||
| Vol. I Wilkinson Cemetery Records Edited by Mrs. James V. Gross & Miss Marion Miles, Mar. 1990, 347 pp. |
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$25.00 | |
| Vol. II Marriage Records 1800-1924 Compiled by Mrs. Linda Gene Carter, Nov. 1992, 364 pp. |
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$27.50 | |
| Vol. III The Woodville Historic District Written by Mrs. Stella Pitts, photos, indexed, Nov. 1992, 309 pp. |
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$30.00 | |
| Vol. IV The Confederacy & Wilkinson County Researched & Compiled by Mrs. James V. Gross & Miss Jeannie Gross, photos Mar. 1998 | |||
| Book 1 378 pp. |
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$40.00 | |
| Book 2 264 pp. |
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$35.00 | |
| Both Books Set | $70.00 | ||
| The Woodville Republican, Founded in 1823 Compiled by O'Levia Neil Wilson Wiese, Abstracted chronologically & surname indexed | |||
| Vol. I 1823-1839 284 pp. |
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$26.00 | |
| Vol. II 1840-1847 275 pp. |
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$26.00 | |
| Vol. III 1848-1855 327 pp. |
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$26.00 | |
| Vol. IV 1878-1880 275 pp. |
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$26.00 | |
| Vol. V 1881-1883; 275 pp. |
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$27.00 | |
| CD with Volumes I-V |
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$26.00 | |
| Vol. VI 1884-1891; 361 pp. |  |
$26.00 | |
| Vol. VII 1892-1895; pp. |  |
$26.00 | |
| Jewish Life in Wilkinson County, 1820-1920: Views of a Vanished Community Exhibit Catalog, 1995, Wilkinson County Museum Edited by Marsha Oates, illustrated, 23 pp. |
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$5.00 | |
| Woodville Pilgrimage Coloring Book Woodville Civic Club sponsored, from 1972 thru 1984, 24 pp. |
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$5.00 | |
| The Burning of Bowling Green: An Illustrated History Written by Stella Pitts, Photographs by James N. Pitts, The tragic events of October 1864, published 1997, 24 pp. |
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$10.00 | |
| Madness and The Mississippi Bonds: A Tale of Old Woodville and the life history of the Planters Bank of Mississippi By Robert Bruce Smith, Published by the Woodville Civic Club 2004, 58 pp. |
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$10.00 | |
| List of Officers and Privates, CSA 1861-1865 Compiled by W.C. Miller 1903, 1991, 16 pp. |
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$5.00 | |
| Coming of Age in Mississippi The classic autobiography of the Civil Rights Era, 1968 by Centreville native, Anne Moody, 384 pp., paperback |
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$14.00 | |
| So Red the Rose Story of the Wilkinson County McGehees Southern Classic Series of 1934, Hollywood Film in 1935 by Stark Young, 431 pp., paperback |
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TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK |
$22.50 |
| Lester Leaps In: Life & Times of Lester "Pres" Young Biography of the historic Jazz figure...the saxophonist from Wilkinson County, By Douglas Henry Daniels |
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$24.00 | |
| Just Tell the Story - Troubled Island Wm. Grant Still Story of the 1st significant Afro/American Grand Opera, Together with CD |
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$49.50 | |
| In One Lifetime, The Life of William Grant Still 1st African-American Composer & Conductor Born in Woodville in 1895 | |||
| Hard Cover |
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$16.95 | |
| By Verna Arvey, 1984, paperback, 280 pp. |
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$10.95 | |
| Little David Had No Fear: A William Grant Still Biography A Hardcover book for children and young adults, By Judith Anne Still Illustrated, 113 pp. |
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$15.00 | |
| Jefferson Davis & The Civil War Era: Collection of Nine Essays by William J. Cooper Jr., published 2008, 128 pp. |
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$24.95 | |
| The Jefferson Davis Coloring Book by Ernesto Caldeira, Illustrated by James Rice, Pelican Publishing, 1982, 32 pp. |
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$5.00 | |
| Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour An acclaimed biography of The President of the Confederate States of America by William Davis, LSU Press Paper |
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$26.95 | |
| The Papers of Jefferson Davis, 1808-1881 Sponsored by Rice University; published by LSU Press, a masterpiece, all documents from Davis and to Davis | |||
| Vol. 1: 1808-1840, 594 pp., includes the Woodville years |
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$90.00 | |
| Vol. 2: 1841-1846, 806 pp., United States Rep/Miss | $100.00 | ||
| Vol. 3: 1846-1848, 598 pp., Our Mexican war hero | $90.00 | ||
| Vol. 4: 1849-1852, 472 pp., United States Senator | $80.00 | ||
| Vol. 5: 1853-1855, 557 pp., US Secretary of War | $90.00 | ||
| Vol. 6: 1856-1860, 840 pp., The Turbulent Years | $100.00 | ||
| Vol. 7: 1861, 557 pp., Secession/President | $90.00 | ||
| Vol. 8: 1862, 720 pp., We are in over our heads | $95.00 | ||
| Vol. 9: 1863, 552 pp., Optimism to despair | $90.00 | ||
| Vol. 10: 1863-1864, 1000 pp., A struggling leader | $105.00 | ||
| Vol. 11: 1864-1865, 699 pp., Last months of the War | $90.00 | ||
| Vol. 12: 1865-870, 623 pp., A Prisoner of War | $105.00 | ||
| Vol. 13: 1870-875, 768 pp., Private Citizen | $125.00 | ||
| Jefferson Davis, Man of the Hour A collection of stories and essays about the President by Gordon A. Cotton, Vicksburg, 1998, 88 pp. |
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$10.00 | |
| Joseph E. Davis, Pioneer Patriarch The fascinating life of the oldest Davis brother; Jefferson was the 10th. Joe Davis was powerful behind the scenes in Mississippi politics and said to be the wealthiest man in Mississippi in his day. By Janet Sharp Hermann 1990, pb, 196 pp. |  |
$25.00 | |
| Fort Adams, Mississippi 1698-1998 Commemorative booklet of the tri-centennial celebration. The first Catholic Mass was celebrated here March 29, 1698, Edited by Lee White, Chairman, 7" x 8 1/2", 16 pp. |  |
$3.00 | |
| FORT ADAMS, WILKINSON COUNTY, Forgotten Linchpin of the Lower Mississippi Valley by Louis N. Ritten. An out growth of the authors interest in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. A detailed history of this western frontier and early settlement. Published 2013. 244 pp. Color photos. |  |
$45.00 | |
| "A.C.": The Remarkable Life of Alexander Calhoun Ardrey: 21st Mississippi Infantry Army of Northern Virginia 1861-1865 by Joan S Ardrey. A.C. was a 19 year old native of Wilkinson County who volunteered at Fort Adams in 1861. It focuses on his war service in the Confederacy. 70 pp. Soft cover. |  |
$12.00 | |
| Twelve Years of My Life by Betty Bentley Beaumont, Englishwoman Betty Bentley Beaumont was an active businesswoman in Woodville in the mid-19th century. This is the story of her life from 1854 to 1866 ...the War years...and it is a fascinating reading, 366 pp. |  |
$25.00 | |
| A Business Woman's Journal continues the story. Her journal of her voyage from New Orleans back to England for a summer is packed with background material and is a major part of this volume. It's great reading. It takes her back to Woodville and leaves you, the reader, wishing for more! Published in 1888. Soft cover, over 300 pp. |  |
$25.00 | |
| Woodville & Other Mississippi & Louisiana Cookbooks | |||
| OUR BEST SELLER! Woodville Red Recipes Compiled & published by the Tabithas of Woodville United Methodist Church, 1990, 5th printing, 219 pp. |
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$18.00 | |
| The Spinning Wheel Cookbook of Old Southern Recipes Published by The Spinning Wheel Club of Woodville in 1899, Reprinted Woodville Civic Club, 1983, 64 pp. |
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$5.00 | |
| Cookin' on the Mississippi, Louisiana & Mississippi Plantation Recipes by Bobby Potts, full color, paperback, 65 pp. |
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$7.95 | |
| Manna from Heaven Culinary Classics from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, published 2002, 8 1/2" x 11", wire bound, 58 pp. |
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$10.00 | |
| Family Recipes: Rosedown & Catalpa Plantation by Richard Scott, Stella Pitts, & Mary Thompson, Published 2005, 216 pp. |
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$19.95 | |
| River Road Plantation Country Cookbook It's so much more than just a cookbook. Anne Butler owns Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville and is an accomplished and prolific author. By Anne Butler 2010, hardcover, 250 pp. |
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$25.00 | |
| Mississippi History & Related Publications | |||
| Lost Mansions in Mississippi by Mary Carol Miller, including LaGrange, The Grove, and Bowling Green in Wilkinson County, 1996, 124 pp. |
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$40.00 | |
| Jews in Early Mississippi Accounts of Jewish settlements across the state, by Leo & Evelyn Turitz, 1995, 135 pp. |
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$25.00 | |
| Historic Churches of Mississippi Showcases 133 churches, synagogues & includes Woodville by Sherry Pace & Richard Cawthon, 192 pp. |
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$40.00 | |
| Great Houses of Mississippi Includes Rosemont, Cold Spring, Lewis, and Feltus Homes by Mary Carol Miller & Mary Rose Carter, 141 pp. |
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$45.00 | |
| Lost Landmarks of Mississippi Includes mention of the Judge McGehee, Wilkinson County Manufacturing Co., four story building built in 1851, burned in 1863, by Mary Carol Miller, 150 pp. |
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$35.00 | |
| Masters of the Big House An exploration of our plantation society, its mores & customs, by William Kaufmann Scarborough, paperback, 501 pp. |
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$24.95 | |
| Religion in Mississippi Shows evangelicals becoming a force of cultural revolution, Heritage of Mississippi Series, 2001, 374 pp. |
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$42.00 | |
| Victorian Houses of Mississippi Includes the 1899 Wax-Catchings home on College St., photos Sherry Pace, text Richard Cawthon, 182 pp. |
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$40.00 | |
| Plantation Homes of the Louisiana and the Natchez Area A classic with 97 entries, printed 1982, includes Rosemont, by David King Gleason, 134 pp. |
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$49.95 | |
| Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places
Includes both of our museums & Bowling Green, by Mary Carol Miller, 207 pp. |
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$40.00 | |
| A BEST SELLER! New Orleans Favorite Shotguns Preservation Resource Center, by Mary Fitzpatrick & Alex Lemann, 2007, 120 pp. |
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$20.00 | |
| Where Do They Go On Game Day? The Story of the Squirrels Who Live in the Grove by Laurie G. Fisher Specialty for those who love Ole Miss. Lavishly illustrated, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2, 28 pp. |  |
$14.95 | |
| CD's & DVD's | |||
| The Burning of Bowling Green Reenactment in stereophonic sound of the October 1864 tragedy. First preformed in 1976 with Mary Stuart as Mary Burrus McGehee and Louis Edmonds as Judge Edward McGehee. 15 minutes introductory music, 26 minutes of performance. CD |
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$15.00 | |
| Jefferson Davis: An American President A four and a half hour documentary as seen on PBS-TV. Executive Producer Percival T. Beacroft of Rosemont Plantation, 3 Discs Boxed |
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$30.00 | |
| Philip Chaffin: When the Wind Blows South 15 classics preformed by Wilkinson County native son, 2008, CD |
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$16.95 | |
| Scott Dunbar: From Lake Mary Little Liza Jane & 11 other hits by our very own legend, recorded at Lake Mary by Fat Possum Records, 1970 |
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$16.00 | |
| Robert Cage: Can You See What You're Doing 9 selections by local Woodville Blues Artist, 1998 |
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$16.00 | |
| William Grant Still: 1895-1978 The Dean of African -American Composers and Wilkinson County native. Operas, symphonies, television & movies | |||
| Troubled Island, World Premiere, NYC Opera 1949 |  |
$15.00 | |
| Afro-American Symphony, No. 1, American Classics |
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$12.50 | |
| The American Scene, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra |
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$15.99 | |
| Witness, Vol. II, with William Warfield, 1996 |
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$15.00 | |
| Get on Board, The Sierra Winds for woodwinds |
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$15.95 | |
| Piano Music, 17 selections, American Classics |
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$12.50 | |
| Symphony No. 3, The Sunday Symphony & others |
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$15.95 | |
| Works by William Grant Still, Videmus |
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$14.99 | |
| Miscellaneous Items | |||
| Wilkinson County Museum Mug Commemorative mug with sketch of our museum...the West Feliciana Railroad Building |
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$5.00 | |