Hurricane Plantation

Hurricane Plantation located near Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the home of Joseph Emory Davis , 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 5,000 acres with approximately 5 miles of river frontage worked by hundreds of slaves. Joseph Davis owned 346 slaves 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.

The mansion at Hurricane was a three-story main house with two large semi-detached wings for entertaining, and a detached library. It contained indoor plumbing and an early form of air conditioning. There were also numerous outbuildings typical of a plantation of that scale. The residence was described in detail by Varina Davis , in a memoir of her husband.

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