Blantonia Plantation

Blantonia Plantation House is a historic Southern plantation of Blantonia in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi. John Blanton and Martha Belton "Patsy" Whitaker established the plantation in the early 1800s. John Blanton, originally from Virginia, moved to Kentucky about 1800 and eventually the family moved and established the plantation Blantonia, just south of Vicksburg.[2] Blantonia Plantation House was initially constructed in 1812 as a pile-and-a-half "expanded I-house".[3] Their son William Whitaker Blanton is listed in census records in Jefferson County, would establish the second Blantonia plantation, known as Blantonia plantation on Bachelor's Bend and referenced as Bachelor's Bend plantation in Hall v. United States, 92 U.S. 27 (1875).[4][5] Another large, Blantonia plantation was also established in the area of Greenville, Mississippi in Washington County from a United States land grant in 1828 to the north along the Mississippi River.[2] Throughout their history, the plantations were worked by enslaved people.

Blantonia Plantation House
Blantonia Plantation is located in Mississippi
Blantonia Plantation
Blantonia Plantation is located in the United States
Blantonia Plantation
Nearest cityLorman, Mississippi
Coordinates31°48′6″N 90°55′55″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1812 (1812)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.93000145[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 4, 1993

Overview

The plantation house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 4, 1993.[1] The architectural style is Greek Revival.[6]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Blanton-Smith Collection, Department of Archives & Special Collections, the University of Mississippi Libraries
  3. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form Form 10-900. OMB No. 10024-0018. February 1, 1993
  4. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals., vol. 1, Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891, p. 213
  5. The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, ed. (1938), Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State, New York: The Viking Press, p. 352
  6. Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 58

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