Mount Holly (Foote, Mississippi)
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Mount Holly
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The house in 1937
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| Location | Foote, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 33°5′42″N 91°2′12″W / 33.09500°N 91.03667°WCoordinates: 33°5′42″N 91°2′12″W / 33.09500°N 91.03667°W |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
| Built | 1855 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference # | 73001030 |
| Added to NRHP | August 14, 1973 |
Mount Holly (a.k.a. Dudley Plantation) was a historic Southern plantation in Foote, Mississippi. Built in 1855, it was visited by many prominent guests, including Confederate President Jefferson Davis. It was later acquired by ancestors of famed Civil War novelist Shelby Foote, who wrote a novel about it. It burned down on June 17, 2015.
It is located in Foote, Washington County, Mississippi. It is situated on the Eastern shore of Lake Washington.
The land was patented by John C. Miller in 1831. By 1833, he sold it to Henry Johnson and his wife, Elizabeth Julia Flournoy.
In 1854, their widowed daughter, Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley, acquired 1,699 acres of land known as the Mount Holly Plantation for US$100,000. It came with outbuildings, livestock, and 100 African slaves.
A year later, in 1855, she married Dr Charles Wilkins Dudley, the son of Kentucky surgeon Benjamin Winslow Dudley. Margaret's husband, Charles, commissioned the construction of the mansion as a present for his wife. Made of red bricks, it has two storeys and thirty-two rooms. It was designed in the Italianate architectural style, either by architect Samuel Sloan or Calvert Vaux, after the Dudleys consulted with both architects.
The Dudleys entertained guests such as Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Albert Sidney Johnston, John C. Pemberton, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T. Sherman.
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