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There are three hotels in the world that fly the Peabody flag: The Peabody Memphis, The Peabody Little Rock, and The Peabody Orlando. With a history of 150 years of Southern hospitality to draw upon, the Peabody flag has come to be known and revered, far and wide, as the number one proponent of the art of Southern charm and gracious hospitality.
And it's no wonder. The Peabody was custom built in 1869 to be the "South's Grand Hotel," and, indeed, it was just that. "The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of The Peabody Hotel and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg. The Peabody is the Paris Ritz, the Cairo Shepheard's, the London Savoy of this section. If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby, where ducks waddle and turtles drowse, ultimately you will meet everybody who is anybody in the Delta," said historian David Cohn...