China Grove Plantation | |
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| Location | Natchez, Mississippi |
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| Area | 228 acres (92 ha) |
| Built | 1855 |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003089 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 7, 1982 |
The China Grove Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
The wood-framed cottage was built in 1854. [2] It has two main rooms, cabinets and galleries. [2] 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. [2] [3] [4] They became the largest landowners in southwestern Adams County by the end of the nineteenth century. [3]
It has been added to the National Register of Historic Places since April 7, 1982. [2]
Natchez is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. It has a total population of 14,520. Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
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Church Hill is a small unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. It is located eight miles east of the Mississippi River and approximately 18 miles north of Natchez at the intersection of highway 553 and Church Hill Road. Church Hill was a community of wealthy cotton planters and enslaved people before the American Civil War. Soil erosion, which had been going on since well before the Civil War, caused the area to decline into a poor farming community with none of the land under cultivation by 1999. The area is remarkable because its antebellum buildings are mostly intact with few modern buildings having been built.
Monmouth is a historic antebellum home located at 1358 John A. Quitman Boulevard in Natchez, Mississippi on a 26-acre (11 ha) lot. It was built in 1818 by John Hankinson, and renovated about 1853 by John A. Quitman, a former Governor of Mississippi and well-known figure in the Mexican–American War. It is one of Natchez's grandest Greek Revival mansions. It was declared a Mississippi Landmark in 1986 and a National Historic Landmark in 1988. It is now a small luxury hotel.
Brandon Hall is a Greek Revival architecture style house built in 1856 in Washington, Mississippi, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Foster's Mound is a Plaquemine culture archaeological site located in Adams County, Mississippi northeast of Natchez off US 61. It is the type site for the Foster Phase of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology. It was added to the NRHP on September 2, 1982 as NRIS number 82003091. The mounds are listed on the Mississippi Mound Trail.
Grove Plantation is a plantation house in Adams Run, South Carolina.
Cedar Grove Place is a historic building in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi.
The Woodland Plantation is a historic Southern plantation near Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi. It retains its original antebellum 230 acre size, and has the tradition of primarily supplying hay to the area cattle. It also has a pecan orchard.
Linden is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi.
Cherry Grove Plantation is a historic plantation in Natchez, Mississippi.
Elms Court is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi, United States.
Lansdowne is a historic mansion that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. It was originally built as the owner's residence on the 727-acre, antebellum, Lansdowne Plantation. The mansion and 120 acres are still owned and occupied by the descendants of the builder, who open it periodically for tours.
Montaigne is a historic house in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
Saragossa was a plantation in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
Oakland is a historic house in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Richmond is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. It was the nineteenth century private residence of a leading businessman and agricultural landowner in Natchez.
The Routhland is a historic mansion in Natchez, Mississippi. Construction began in 1815 in the Federal architectural style. It now has an Italianate style after extensive remodeling. The mansion has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1977. It is located at 131 Winchester road in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
Homewood Plantation was a historic plantation with a mansion of the same name located on it in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Built in 1860 as a wedding present for the Southern belle Catherine Hunt, the daughter of millionaire planter David Hunt, the mansion remained unscathed during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. By the early twentieth century, it was used as a shooting location for 1915 classic film The Birth of a Nation. The author Stark Young used Homewood as the setting of a wedding in his 1934 novel So Red the Rose. The mansion burnt down in 1940.
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