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Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River is a historically significant map produced in 1858 of landmarks, roads, ferry crossings, and plantations along the course of the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans. [1] [2] Cotton and sugar plantations are color-coded with distinct colors. [1] The lithographic map is based on cartography ...
Cherry Grove Plantation: Natchez: Adams: 82003089 China Grove Plantation: Lorman, Mississippi: Jefferson: Built in 1826 by Willis McDonald (a Revolutionary War veteran) [citation needed] 80002193 Cliffs Plantation: Natchez Adams: 85002721 Clifton: Howard: Holmes: 87000543 Desert Plantation: Woodville: Wilkinson: 72000684 Dunleith: Natchez
The original 500 acres (200 ha) acres grew to a 2,000 acres (810 ha) working cotton plantation through various ownerships, circa 1774–1812, and 1845–1850. [2] Glenfield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi in 1990. [3]
Map of Natchez, Mississippi, United States in May 1862; the "road to Hamburg" may have been a route between the slave markets at Forks of the Road and Hamburg, South Carolina. During the Civil War, Natchez remained largely undamaged. The city surrendered to Flag-Officer David G. Farragut after the fall of New Orleans in May 1862. [44]
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The plantation was established in 1823 by Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), the wealthiest cotton planter and the second largest slaveowner in the Antebellum South. [3] [4] Cotton was the main cash crop grown here. [3] In 1835, William St. John Elliot, who also owned D'Evereux, purchased the plantation.
Natchez planters developed new cotton plant hybrids and a mechanized system that fueled the spread of the cotton plantation system throughout the Old Southeast. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The demand by European Americans for land to develop for upland cotton drove the removal of Native American tribes from the Southeast after 1830.
Natchez and Port Gibson were the biggest towns in Mississippi at statehood in 1817; Vicksburg came into its own as a rival to Natchez in the 1830s. [3] (NAID 102279464) NAID 102279464) Eli Whitney's development of the cotton gin in the late 18th century contributed to the development of the area, and the Deep South as a whole, as it made ...