County: SW Mississippi
Territory
Title: Early Homesteads and Plantations - pre-1818
Submitter: Ellen Pack
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Homestead/
Plantation
Year Built
Location
Owner(s)
Other
Airlie
bef.1790
N end of
Myrtle St.,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Don Jose
Vidal
>Don Estaban
Minor
>A. H.
Buckner
>Ayers Merrill
-
Arlington
1816
-
>Jane Surget
White
-
Auburn, 1812
1812
400 Duncan
Ave,
Natchez,
Adams
County
>Judge Lyman
Harding
>Dr. Stephen
Duncan
[Designed by
Levi Weeks]
Harding was
the first
Attorney
General of the
MS Territory,
and of the
State.
After the death
of Dr. Duncan,
the Duncan
heirs donated
the house and
210 acres to
the city of
Natchez, in
1911.
Briars (The)
1814-1818
31 Irving
Lane
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
Jefferson
Davis and
Varina Howell
were married
here in 1845
Causley
Homeplace
1809
Amite Co.
-
-
Cherokee
ca. 1794-1810
-
>Jesse
Greenfield
(1810)
>David Mitchie
-
Cherry Grove
ca 1788
-
>Pierre Surget
and Catharine
Hubbard
-
Connelly's Tavern
1775
-
>Pat Connelly
-
Conti House
about 1785
207 S. Wall
St. Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
-
Cottage Garden
1793-4
816 Myrtle
Ave,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Don Jose
Vidal
>Foster family
-
Coyle House
1793
307 South
Wall Street,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Don Gayosa
>Hugh Coyle
-
Dixie
1795
-
>Maurice
Stackpoole
>Samuel Davis
in 1828 (older
brother of
Jefferson
Davis.)
-
Elgin Plantation
ca 1792
On 25 acres,
at 81 Dunbar
Road,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Dr. John
Carmichael
Jenkins,
horticulturist
>Sir William
Dunbar
-
Ellislee
ca 1800
-
>Aaron
Killingsworth
Ellis
-
Elms (The)
ca 1785 -1804
Washington
& Pine
Streets,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Don Pedro
Piernas or
>William
Barland
-
Elms Court
ca 1810
-
-
-
Evansview
ca 1790
-
-
-
Fair Oaks
ca 1800
-
>Jesse Carter
and Sarah
Canhard
>daughter
Lydia Carter
and George
Poindexter
-
Gibson Home
Ca 1805
Port Gibson,
Claiborne
Co.
>Samuel
Gibson
-
Glenfield
1814
Canal Street,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
Dates from a
Spanish land
grant. Oldest
building 1814;
others added in
phases.
Gloucester
ca 1799
-
>David
Williams
>Winthrop
Sargent
-
Governor Holmes
House
1794
207 S. Wall
St., Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Governor
Holmes
Gov. Holmes
was the last
MS Territory
governor, and
the first
governor of the
state of MS.
Griffith-McComas
Home
ca. 1794
-
>Leonard
Pomet
>Rev. Daniel
Smith
> John and
William Griffith
-
Hawthorne
ca 1814
-
>Jonathan
Thompson
-
Holly Hedges
1796
-
>Don Juan
Scott
>Judge Edward
Turner
-
Hope Farm
1775-1789
-
>Marcus
Hoiler
>Don Carlos de
Grand
Don Carlos de
Grand was a
Spanish
governor
House on Ellicott's
Hill (The)
ca 1798
211 N Canal
St, Natchez,
Adams Co.
>Maj. Andrew
Ellicott
Built on site
where, in 1797,
Maj.Ellicott, on
orders from
George
Washington,
defied Spanish
authority and
raised the
American flag
for the first
time in the
Lower MS
Valley.
Jefferson Military
College
1802
-
-
-
King's Tavern
bef 1789
-
>Constant King
-
Linden
ca 1800
1 Linden
Place -
Off Melrose
Ave.,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
1818-1840, ?
>Thomas B.
Reed
>Mrs. Jane
Gustine Conner
(1849)
>Mrs.
Margaret
Conner Martin
>Mrs. Percy
Quinn
Reed was the
first elected US
Senator from
MS.
Current
residents are
the sixth
generation of
the Conner
family to reside
there.
Mercer House
ca 1815
S. Wall &
State Streets,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
-
Mistletoe
1807
On old
Selsertwon
Rd near
Edgewood,
Adams Co.
>John Bisland
Built as
honeymoon
cottage for son
Peter Bisland
and his bride
Barbara Foster
on a Spanish
land grant.
Monmouth
ca 1818
36 Melrose
Ave Natchez,
Adams Co.
>John
Hankinson
>Gov. John A.
Quitman
See also:
History of
Monmouth
Plantation
Mount Locust
ca 1780
-
-
-
Mt. Repose
ca 1810
Pine Ridge
Road, Adams
Co.
>John Bisland
-
Old Commercial
Bank Building
about 1810
206 Main St.,
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
-
Old Spanish House
1796
S. Wall &
Washington
St. Natchez,
Adams Co
-
Constructed of
Brick & Stucco
Parish House of
San Salvadore
1786
Market St.
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
-
Pleasant Hill
ca 1803
Currently on
Pearl St.
Natchez,
Adams Co.
-
Moved to
Pearl St. from
it's original
location
Priest Home
ca 1783
-
>Father Lennan
-
Richmond
1784-1832-1860
-
-
Built in three
stages.
Routhland
ca 1817
-
>Baron
Carondelet
>Job Routh
>John Routh
-
Saragossa
between 1769-
1787
-
>David
Williams
-
Scott Home
1796
-
>Andrew
Marchalk
Built for his
daughter Jane
Elenore
Marchalk
Scott on the
occasion of her
wedding
Springfield
ca 1790
Jefferson Co.
>Thomas
Green,
?marriage of
Andrew
Jackson and
Rachel
Donelson
Robards
-
Texada
1792
-
>Don Manuel
Texada
Meeting place
of Territorial
Legislature
Towers (The)
bef. 1818
-
-
-
Twin Oaks
1812
-
>Lewis Evans
>Mother
Cornelia
Connelly
(1832-1835)
Evans was a
sherriff of the
MS Territory.
Mother
Connelly was
the foundress
of the Society
of the Holy
Child Jesus
Villa Lombardo
ca 1805
-
-
(Now antique
store-has 13
rooms on both
levels)
Wigwam
bef. 1790
-
-
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