China Grove Plantation

China Grove Plantation
Location Natchez, Mississippi
Area 228 acres (92 ha)
Built 1855 (1855)
NRHP Reference # 82003089[1]
Added to NRHP April 7, 1982

The China Grove Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.

Location

It is located in South Natchez, near Sibley.[2]

History

The woof-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]

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet: China Grove Plantation, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
  3. 1 2 3 4 Beth L. Savage, African American Historic Places, New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, p. 295
  4. ↑ Aaron D. Anderson, Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2013, p. 106


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