Historic Southern Resorts You May Not Have Heard About

The Willcox Inn, in the town of Aiken in South Carolina's Thoroughbred Country, was built in 1898. Its white columns and high ceilings bring to mind Tara in "Gone With the Wind." Shelly Marshall Schmidt/The Willcox/TNS

By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service

Fancy a romantic sojourn through the South? If you’re ready to sweeten your life with your sweetie with loads of Southern charm, scenery and history, then you’ll find myriad grand resorts dotted across the countryside from Tennessee and North Carolina and down to Alabama and Georgia and everywhere in between.