Glenfield Plantation (originally called Glencannon) is a one-level historic antebellum home in
Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez ( ) is the county seat of and only city in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 14,520 (as of the 2020 census). Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, N ...
. Glenfield was built in two distinct architectural periods on a British land grant originally deeded to Henry LeFluer by King George III. The original 500 acres grew to a 2000-acre working cotton plantation through various ownerships, circa 1774-1812 and 1845–1850. Glenfield was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in Mississippi in 1990.
Benjamin Monsanto
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and his wife Clare of the famous
Sephardic Jewish
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slave trading
Monsanto family
The Monsanto family is a historical Sephardic Jewish merchant, banking and various business dealing with the government. who played a significant role in founding the Jewish community in Colonial Louisiana (then transferring between French and Spa ...
purchased Glenfield Plantation in 1787.
Glenfield was purchased in April 1880 by Osborne King Field, Sr. The descendants of Osborne King Field, Sr. and his third wife, Virginia Hamilton Field, still reside at Glenfield today as their private residence. Prior to 1880, Glenfield was called "Glencannon" by its previous owners, William and Jane Shipp Cannon.
Though Natchez, Mississippi, surrendered to Union troops, a skirmish during the Civil War was held here on the grounds of Glenfield (then Glencannon). A bullet hole in the front door and other preserved artifacts, including medals and buttons, have been recovered on the grounds in evidence of these facts. Union soldiers had pickets and an encampment on the grounds of Glencannon, as written in the diary of Lucy A. Cannon, the Cannons' 15-year-old daughter.
The house has been a historic house museum with tours for the public since 1932 as well as a bed-and-breakfast since 1992.
References
External links
Glenfield Plantation- official website
Houses in Natchez, Mississippi
Historic house museums in Mississippi
Museums in Natchez, Mississippi
Bed and breakfasts in Mississippi
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
Gothic Revival architecture in Mississippi
Jews and Judaism in Mississippi
Judaism and slavery
National Register of Historic Places in Natchez, Mississippi
Sephardi Jewish culture in the United States
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