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Sedgewood Plantation: Canton, Mississippi: 89000207 Selma Plantation: Natchez: Adams: 71000454 ... It was one of the largest antebellum mansions ever built in the ...
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.
Windsor Ruins are in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. The ruins consist of 23 standing Corinthian columns of the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion ever built in the state. [4] The mansion stood from 1861 to 1890, when it was destroyed by fire.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Delta & Pine Land Company was initially chartered in Mississippi in 1886 as a land speculation company, but was inactive until 1919, when a British textile company acquired the name. In the 1920s and 1930s, the company operated one of the largest cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta, with headquarters in Scott, Mississippi. [3]
In 1854, James Railey, who already owned the Oakland Plantation, purchased this property. [3] However, after his death, his heirs lost the property due to a chancery lawsuit. [3] A few years after the American Civil War of 1861–1865, in 1869, former slaves Auguste Mazique and his wife Sarah purchased the property at a public auction.
Laurel Hill Plantation (Adams County, Mississippi) Laurel Hill Plantation (Jefferson County, Mississippi) Leota Plantation; M. Montpellier (Natchez, Mississippi)
The plantation gains added significance from its long history of family ownership. Pierre Surget, originally a seaman by trade, was the patriarch of the Surget family in Natchez, a family that formed one of the largest planting dynasties in the entire South.