Wyolah Plantation

Wyolah Plantation
Wyolah Plantation is located in Mississippi
Wyolah Plantation
Location within Mississippi
Wyolah Plantation is located in the United States
Wyolah Plantation
Location within the United States
LocationChurch Hill, Mississippi
Coordinates31°42′7.56″N 91°14′49.78″W / 31.7021000°N 91.2471611°W / 31.7021000; -91.2471611
Area60.4 acres (24.4 ha)
Architectural styleGreek Revival architecture
NRHP reference No.85001168[1]
Added to NRHPMay 30, 1985

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

Overview

The plantation house at Wyolah was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the American Civil War.[4] The architectural style of the plantation house is Greek Revival.[2][5] The name "Wyolah" may have been derived from a place in Ireland.[6] Coleman enslaved 81 people in Jefferson County, Mississippi, according to the 1860 census.[7]

Coleman maintained a medical practice in Rodney, Mississippi, and at Wyolah.[8] In the WPA Slave Narrative Collection for the state of Arkansas, formerly enslaved Jefferson County resident Peter Brown told of a period when David Hunt enslaved him on Woodlawn Plantation and Coleman treated his parents, who had contracted cholera.[9] In 1846, Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some enslaved people.[10]

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

Wyolah later passed through several owners, including the Reddy family and the family of Thomas O'Quinn Jr.[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, filmmaker 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. 1 2 3 National Register of Historic Places
  3. 1 2 3 Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Mississippi, North American Book Distribution, 2001, p. 499
  4. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Tour The Help Director Tate Taylor's Renovated 1830s Mississippi Mansion". Architectural Digest. February 2, 2016. Archived from the original on February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rudd, Linda. "1860 Jefferson County Slave Schedule – Mississippi". Angelfire. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  8. 1 2 "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. United States Work Projects Administration. Retrieved January 11, 2018 – via Project Gutenberg. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  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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