Hurricane Plantation - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hurricane Plantation - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hurricane Plantation located near Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the home of Joseph Emory Davis (1784–1870), the oldest brother of Jefferson Davis. Located on a peninsula of the Mississippi River in Warren County, Mississippi, called Davis Bend after its owner, Hurricane Plantation at its peak in the antebellum era comprised more than with approximately of river frontage. Joseph Davis owned 346 enslaved people and had a personal worth of more than $600,000 in the 1860 U.S. Census, making him one of the wealthiest men in the state of Mississippi. Read more on Wikipedia
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