Wyolah Plantation Explained

Wyolah Plantation
Location:Church Hill, Mississippi
Architecture:Greek Revival architecture
Added:May 30, 1985
Refnum:85001168

The Wyolah Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi.[1] [2] [3] It is located off the Mississippi Highway 553.[2]

Overview

The Wyolah Plantation owner's house was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the Civil War. The architectural style of the plantation house is Greek Revival.[1] [4] It is thought that maybe Coleman named Wyolah after a place in Ireland. Coleman owned 81 enslaved people in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census.[5]

Coleman had a medical practice in Rodney, Mississippi and at his nearby Wyolah Plantation. 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 Coleman came to care for his parents, who had contracted cholera.[6] In 1846 Doctor Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some enslaved people.[7]

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.[9] 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.[10] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 30, 1985.[1] [2]

, producer Tate Taylor is the owner of Wyolah.[11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ms/jefferson/state.html National Register of Historic Places
  2. Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Mississippi, North American Book Distribution, 2001, p. 499 https://books.google.com/books?id=dlLDIiQv9twC&pg=PA499
  3. Web site: Miller . Mary . National Register of Historic Places — Registration Form . United States Department of the Interior National Park Service . 2017-10-31.
  4. Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 58 https://books.google.com/books?id=iPfA5Ha8wf4C&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58
  5. Web site: Rudd . Linda . 1860 Jefferson County Slave Schedule – Mississippi . . 2018-01-11.
  6. Book: Robertson . Irene . Slave narratives, Arkansas Part I . Peter Brown. Helena, Arkansas . http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11255/11255-h/11255-h.htm#BrownPeter . Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States . United States Work Projects Administration . Project Gutenberg . 2018-01-11.
  7. Web site: Brignac . Kelly . Exploring Race and Medicine through Diaries: White Perspective on Slave Medical Care in Antebellum Mississippi . Indiana.edu . 2018-01-11.
  8. News: UNKNOWN . June 10, 1973 . 12 . Newspapers.com . limited . Clarion-Ledger . Jackson, Mississippi . 2018-01-11.
  9. Book: Logan . Marie . Mississippi-Louisiana Border Country . 1980 . Claitor's Publishing Division . Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 205 . 2nd.
  10. Web site: Miller . Mary . National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form . United States Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service . 2018-01-11.
  11. Web site: Tour The Help Director Tate Taylor's Renovated 1830s Mississippi Mansion . February 2, 2016 . Architectural Digest.

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