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[4] Persac sailed the river in a skiff to collect information for the map, stopping frequently to inquire about names of plantations and plantation owners. [5] According to Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery (2021), "It has the effect of a promenade along the river, displaying the bounty of nature transformed into capitalist wealth. This ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
On the Mississippi River, most shipping was down river on log rafts or wooden boats that were dismantled and sold as lumber in the vicinity of New Orleans. Steam-powered river navigation began in 1811–12, between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans. Inland steam navigation rapidly expanded in the following decades.
Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto A.D. 1541 by William Henry Powell depicts Hernando de Soto and Spanish Conquistadores seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. Map of the French settlements (blue) in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763). c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition.
Homochitto was an 800-acre (320 ha) plantation located directly on the Mississippi River [2] in Issaquena County (initially the lower portion of Washington County), Mississippi, United States. [1] According to one source, Homochitto is a Choctaw name likely meaning "big red", [ 3 ] and was earlier applied to the Homochitto River in Mississippi.
The use of the plantation, with more than 1,000 acres, was given to Jefferson Davis by his much older brother, Joseph Emory Davis (1784-1870); it had previously been a part of Joseph Davis's much larger Hurricane Plantation, which it adjoined on a bend of the Mississippi River twenty miles from Vicksburg.
Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832.
Natchez to New Orleans: Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River by A. Persac (1858) showing cotton plantations of Mississippi along the Mississippi River, Natchez to state line 1860 US census, Mississippi, number of slaves per enslaver Former slave quarters at Jefferson Davis' plantation Brierfield in Mississippi, drawn by A.R. Waud, etching published 1866 in Harper's Weekly