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Burned in 1940. Hurricane Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°10′01″N 91°08′53″W / 32.16681°N 91.14816°W / 32.16681; -91.14816 (Hurricane) Warren. Built 1827 by Joseph Davis, older brother of Jefferson Davis. All primary structures except for the library pavilion (pictured) were burned in 1862 by Federal troops. 78001581 ...
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. Now an inn and conference center, it was designated a National ...
December 16, 1969 [2] Designated USMS. November 29, 1994 [1] 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 ...
Waverley (West Point, Mississippi) Waverley is a mansion, formerly a plantation house and now a historic house museum, in Clay County, Mississippi, ten miles east of West Point. Built in the 1838, it is architecturally unique among Mississippi's antebellum mansions for its enormous octagonal cupola. It was declared a National Historic Landmark ...
March 21, 1995 [1] Stanton Hall, also known as Belfast, is a Greek Revival mansion within the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District at 401 High Street in Natchez, Mississippi. Built in the 1850s, it is one of the most opulent antebellum mansions to survive in the southeastern United States. It is now operated as a historic house museum ...
Designated USMS. October 24, 1985 [1] The Beauvoir estate, built in Biloxi, Mississippi, along the Gulf of Mexico, was the post-war home (1876–1889) of the former President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis. The National Park Service designated the house and plantation as a National Historic Landmark.
Windsor mansion was located on a plantation that covered 2,600 acres (1,100 ha). The mansion was constructed by enslaved African Americans between 1859 and 1861 for Smith Coffee Daniell II. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] He was born in Mississippi and had acquired great wealth by age 30 as a cotton planter .
Rosemont, also known as Rosemont Plantation, Poplar Grove or Hale House, was built in 1814 in Woodville, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 [2] and designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1987. [1] The house is the family and boyhood home of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America ...