Saragossa was a plantation in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.
Location It is located on Saragossa Road in Natchez, Mississippi.Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Mississippi, North American Book Distribution, 2001, p. 473
History The plantation was established in 1823 by Stephen Duncan (1787-1867), the wealthiest cotton planter and the second largest slaveowner in the Antebellum South.Amy L. Young, Michael Tuma, Cliff Jenkins, The Role of Hunting to Cope with Risk at Saragossa Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi, American Anthropologist, January 2001Louisiana State University Libraries: ELLIOT (WILLIAM ST. JOHN) PAPERS Cotton was the main cash crop grown here.
In 1835, William St. John Elliot, who also owned D'Evereux, purchased the plantation. In 1849, it was purchased by William G. Conner, who sold it back to Elliot in 1852. That same year, in 1852, it was purchased by Winfield Gibson. Three years later, in 1855, it was purchased by Caroline Williams, who bequeathed it to her daughter, Anna (Williams) Smith, and her son-in-law, Walton Pembroke Smith.ROUTH-WILLIAMS-SMITH FAMILY PAPERS, Mississippi Department of Archives & History It then stayed in the Smith family until the 1970s.
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 24, 1980.
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