Cotesworth is a historic mansion in North Carrollton, Mississippi, United States.
Location The mansion is located on Old Grenada Road in North Carrollton, Carroll County, Mississippi.
History The mansion was built as an inn in the 1840s.Visit Mississippi: CotesworthMary Carol Miller, Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007, pp. 83-86 In 1847, it was acquired by local lawyer and future United States Senator James Zachariah George, who turned it into a Greek Revival mansion. He named it after Cotesworth P. Smith. Timothy B. Smith, "James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner," University Press of Mississippi, 2012, chapter four.
Two decades after the end of the American Civil War, Senator George built "a free-standing hexagonal library" on the grounds.
The mansion stayed in Senator George's family until 2013, when Katharine Saunders Williams, his great-great-granddaughter, donated it to establish the Cotesworth Culture and Heritage Center.
Heritage significance It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 9, 1978.
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