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Longwood, also known as Nutt's Folly, is a historic antebellum octagonal mansion located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.Built in part by enslaved people, [4] [5] the mansion is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Dunleith is an antebellum mansion at 84 Homochitto Street in Natchez, Mississippi. [4] Built about 1855, it is Mississippi's only surviving example of a plantation house with a fully encircling colonnade of Greek Revival columns, a form once seen much more frequently than today.
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
At Natchez, many local plantation owners had their cotton loaded onto steamboats at the landing known as Natchez Under-the-Hill [22] to be transported downriver to New Orleans or, sometimes, upriver to St. Louis or Cincinnati. The cotton was sold and shipped to New England, New York, and European spinning and textile mills.
Glenfield Plantation (originally called Glencannon) is a one-level historic antebellum home in Natchez, Mississippi.Glenfield was built in two distinct architectural periods on a British land grant originally deeded to Henry LeFluer by King George III.
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]
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [ 1 ] There are 125 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 13 National Historic Landmarks .
Cherry Grove Plantation is today one of the best preserved and most complete plantation complexes in the Natchez area. The original plantation residence constructed by Pierre Surget and his wife Catharine burned in the mid-nineteenth century, and the present picturesque and architecturally significant residence was constructed about 1865 by ...