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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. [1] [2] [3]
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.
Chilton-Williams Farm Complex, also known as Chilton Place, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways near Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri. The district encompasses 15 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures associated with a post-American Civil War Ozark farm.
Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.
It is a state-designated Prairie View Natural Area. The contributing buildings are a transverse-crib barn/grain house (c. 1879), a barn/feeding facility, a two-story, frame, folk Victorian house (1893-1894); and a frame privy (1893-1894). The contributing structures are a storm cellar (1893-1894) and an arbor (c. 1895). [2]: 8
Red Rock Landing Conservation Area is a conservation area located in eastern Perry County, Missouri at the end of County Road 350, approximately ten miles east of Perryville, Missouri. The Missouri Conservation Department created this area in November 1994 with the purchase of 554-acres along the Mississippi River .
Bay St. Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States. [4] Located on the Gulf Coast on the west side of the Bay of St. Louis, it is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,284 at the 2020 census, up from 9,260 at the 2010 census.
Fort Maurepas, later known as Old Biloxi, [1] was developed in colonial French Louisiana (New France) in April 1699 along the Gulf of Mexico (at present-day Ocean Springs, Mississippi). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fort Maurepas was designated temporarily as the capital of Louisiana (New France) in 1699.