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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]
Location of Copiah County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Copiah County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Location of Lee County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lee County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously paid local Black farmworkers ...
The Foster's site has two platform mounds and is located on the northern bank of St. Catherine Creek near its confluence with the Mississippi River.The largest mound, Mound A, is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height and 30 metres (98 ft) by 30 metres (98 ft) at its base and has had a plantation house on its summit since the 1790s.
Simple Spanish provincial architecture. Mary Routh Ellis sold the farm to Eli Montgomery in 1833, and for 90 years it remained in Montgomery family. Spain and England met here. Hope Farm, charming in its simplicity, had a section built in 1775, when the English owned the Natchez area.
The Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms were started in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1936; and Holmes County, Mississippi, in 1939, respectively.The farms were founded and run by missionary evangelist and author Sherwood Eddy, and Reverend Sam H. Franklin, with the goal of helping southern sharecroppers out of their economic plight (caused in part by side effects of the New Deal's ...
Hopson is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. [2] A post office operated under the name Hopson from 1857 to 1867. [3] In 1944 The Hopson Planting Company used International Harvester cotton pickers to harvest cotton, becoming the first farm to mechanically cultivate and produce an entire cotton crop. [4]