Wyolah Plantation

The Wyolah Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi.[2][3][4] It is located off the Mississippi Highway 553.[3]

Wyolah Plantation
LocationChurch Hill, Mississippi
Coordinates31°42′7.56″N 91°14′49.78″W
Area60.4 acres (24.4 ha)
Architectural styleGreek Revival architecture
NRHP reference No.85001168[1]
Added to NRHPMay 30, 1985

Overview

The Wyolah Plantation owner's house was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the Civil War.[4] The architectural style of the plantation house is Greek Revival.[2][5] It is thought that maybe Dr. Coleman named Wyolah after a place in Ireland.[6] Dr. Coleman owned 81 slaves in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census.[7]

Dr. Coleman had a medical practice in Rodney, Mississippi and at his nearby Wyolah Plantation.[8] In the WPA Slave Narrative Collection for the state of Arkansas, former Jefferson County, Mississippi slave Peter Brown told of a time when he was a slave on David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation and Dr. Coleman came to care for his parents, who had contracted cholera.[9] In 1846 Doctor Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some slaves.[10]

Dr. Coleman and his friend Thomas Affleck published a horticulture-related journal from Wyolah Plantation.[8]

Wyolah was purchased by the Reddy family, and later by the Thomas O'Quinn, Jr. family.[11] In 1984 Wyolah was owned by Dr. James W. and Juel F. Delasho and consisted of 110.44 acres, of which 60.44 acres was nominated as a historic site.[12] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 30, 1985.[2][3]

As of 2016, producer Tate Taylor is the owner of Wyolah.[6]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. National Register of Historic Places
  3. Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Mississippi, North American Book Distribution, 2001, p. 499
  4. Miller, Mary. "National Register of Historic Places — Registration Form". United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  5. Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 58
  6. "Tour The Help Director Tate Taylor's Renovated 1830s Mississippi Mansion". Architectural Digest. February 2, 2016.
  7. Rudd, Linda. "1860 Jefferson County Slave Schedule – Mississippi". angelfire.com. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  8. "UNKNOWN". Jackson, Mississippi: Clarion-Ledger. June 10, 1973. p. 12. Retrieved January 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Robertson, Irene. "Peter Brown. Helena, Arkansas". Slave narratives, Arkansas Part I. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States. United States Work Projects Administration. Retrieved January 11, 2018 – via Project Gutenberg.
  10. Brignac, Kelly. "Exploring Race and Medicine through Diaries: White Perspective on Slave Medical Care in Antebellum Mississippi" (PDF). Indiana.edu. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  11. Logan, Marie (1980). Mississippi-Louisiana Border Country (2nd ed.). Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Claitor's Publishing Division. p. 205.
  12. Miller, Mary. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form" (PDF). United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
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