Wyolah Plantation | |
Location | Church Hill, Mississippi |
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Coordinates | 31°42′7.56″N 91°14′49.78″W / 31.7021000°N 91.2471611°W |
Area | 60.4 acres (24.4 ha) |
Architectural style | Greek Revival architecture |
NRHP reference No. | 85001168 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 30, 1985 |
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]
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 Coleman named Wyolah after a place in Ireland. [6] Coleman owned 81 enslaved people in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census. [7]
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 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 enslaved people. [10]
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 [update], producer Tate Taylor is the owner of Wyolah. [6]
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