Heathman Plantation

	Heathman Plantation Commissary
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Site
	Commissary on the Heathman Plantation
	Location in Mississippi
Location	Heathman, Mississippi
Coordinates	33°26′25.6″N 90°43′07.4″W / 33.440444°N 90.718722°WCoordinates: 33°26′25.6″N 90°43′07.4″W / 33.440444°N 90.718722°W
Built	1848
NRHP reference No.	12000923
Added to NRHP	2012

The Heathman Plantation, also known as Dogwood Ridge Plantation and Billups Plantation, is a historical site that was a former cotton plantation in Heathman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1848 as a forced-labor operation worked by African American people enslaved by the land's white owners.^[2]

History[]

The plantation is located at the intersection of Highway 82 and Heathman Road in Heathman near Indianola, Mississippi, in Sunflower County, Mississippi.^[2]^[3]^[4] In 1848, James Brown built the Dogwood Ridge Plantation as an 8,000-acre cotton plantation.^[2]^[3]

In 1871, James Martin Heathman, who was married to Lillie Brown, the daughter of James Brown, purchased the plantation.^[2]^[3] He renamed it the Heathman Plantation.^[3] He died in 1885.^[2] Three years later, she married J. A. Crawford in 1888.^[2]

It was later known as the Billups Plantation.^[2]

Heritage significance[]

The commissary has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 14, 2012.^[4]

References[]

^ "Weekly list of actions taken on properties: 11/13/12 through 11/16/12". National Park Service. November 23, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Heathman Plantation, Preservation in Mississippi
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Heathman Plantation, Visit Mississippi
^ ^a ^b Historic Resources Inventory

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[NRHP-1] "Weekly list of actions taken on properties: 11/13/12 through 11/16/12". National Park Service. November 23, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2014.

[preservation-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Heathman Plantation, Preservation in Mississippi

[visit-3] Heathman Plantation, Visit Mississippi

[historic-4] Historic Resources Inventory

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