The Wyolah Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Church Hill, Jefferson County,

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Overview

The Wyolah Plantation owner's house was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the Civil War. The architectural style of the

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and e ...

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

. It is thought that maybe Coleman named Wyolah after a place in Ireland. Coleman owned 81 enslaved people in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census. Coleman had a medical practice in

Rodney, Mississippi Rodney is a former city in Jefferson County in southwest Mississippi, approximately northeast of Natchez. Rodney was founded in 1828, and in the 19th century, it was only three votes away from becoming the capital of the Mississippi Territor ...

and at his nearby Wyolah Plantation. In the WPA

Slave Narrative Collection ''Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States'' (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progre ...

for the state of Arkansas, former Jefferson County, Mississippi slave Peter Brown told of a time when he was a slave on David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation and Coleman came to care for his parents, who had contracted cholera. In 1846 Doctor Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some enslaved people. Coleman and his friend Thomas Affleck published a horticulture-related journal from Wyolah Plantation. Wyolah was purchased by the Reddy family, and later by the Thomas O'Quinn, Jr. family. In 1984 Wyolah was owned by Dr. James W. and Juel F. Delasho and consisted of 110.44 acres, of which 60.44 acres was nominated as a historic site. It has been listed on the

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since May 30, 1985. , producer

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is the owner of Wyolah.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Houses in Jefferson County, Mississippi Greek Revival houses in Mississippi Plantation houses in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub