China Grove Plantation

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

China Grove Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Natchez, Mississippi
Area	228 acres (92 ha)
Built	1855 (1855)
NRHP reference No.	82003089[1]
Added to NRHP	April 7, 1982

Location

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

History

The wood-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 Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet: China Grove Plantation, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
3. 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