The China Grove Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
Location It is located in South Natchez, near Sibley.Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet: China Grove Plantation, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
History The wood-framed cottage was built in 1854. It has two main rooms, cabinets and galleries. In 1854, James Railey, who already owned the Oakland Plantation, purchased this property.Beth L. Savage, African American Historic Places, New York, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, p. 295 However, after his death, his heirs lost the property due to a chancery lawsuit.
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.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 They became the largest landowners in southwestern Adams County by the end of the nineteenth century.
It has been added to the National Register of Historic Places since April 7, 1982.
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