Blantonia Plantation House is a historic Southern plantation of Blantonia in Lorman, Jefferson County,

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. 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

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.Blanton-Smith Collection, Department of Archives & Special Collections, the University of Mississippi Libraries
/ref> Blantonia Plantation House was initially constructed in 1812 as a pile-and-a-half "expanded I-house". 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). Another large, Blantonia plantation was also established in the area of

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in Washington County from a United States land grant in 1828 to the north along the

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. Throughout their history, the plantations were worked by

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The

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has been listed on the

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since March 4, 1993. The architectural style is

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.Patti Carr Black, ''Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980'', Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 5

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