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Subject: Re: [MSJEFFER-L] Greenwood plantation
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:32:24 EST
In a message dated 11/14/00 1:18:19 PM, writes:
<< Greenwood, is it a town or another plantation, my grandmother always spoke
of it as a plantation. >>
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One possibility is Butler Greenwood in St. Francisville, LA, south of
Woodville. Since Jefferson Davis' boyhood home, Rosemont, was in Woodville,
MS, this could be the Greenwood the Shackleford family remembers.
OR,
In Adams County, MS, there may be (or have been) two Greenwood Plantations:
--From an old map, one possible Greenwood Plantation was located near the
northern branch of St. Catherine Creek northeast of Natchez, possibly off
present-day Highway 61. The old plantation map I have doesn't show the roads
except as lines, no names. As further reference, the plantation was bordered
by Wilderness, Mt. Pleasant, and Languedoc Plantations. This plantation
would have been about five miles south of the Jefferson Co. line, and is the
one I mentioned in my last e-mail as possibly being the Greenwood your family
remembers. I don't know if it still exists.
--The other Greenwood Plantation is located on S. Palestine/PineLog Rd.,
southeast of Natchez along Sandy Creek, just north of the Kingston area. It
still exists, and has no history with the Cotton/Shackleford families to my
knowledge.
Whether yet another Greenwood Plantation could be in Jefferson Co. is a
question for the Jefferson Co. List.
I'm also sending this to the Adams County List for their local knowledge.
Mark Montgomery,
Florida
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