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{ 123 } Laurel Hill 1. Pierce Butler, The Unhurried Years: Memories of the Old Natchez Region, 16–17. 2. Ibid. 3. National Register of Historic Places nomination, Mississippi Department of Archives and History files, November 1982. 4. Daniel Deacon, as quoted in Butler, 18. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid., 71. 8. Jeanerette Harlow,“Laurel Hill House Which Burned Here Witnessed Several Tragic Happenings,” Natchez Democrat, November 19, 1967. Salisbury 1. Unnamed source, as quoted in Philip Chadwick Foster Smith and G. Gouverneur Meredith S. Smith, Cane, Cotton & Crevasses, 94. 2. Smith and Smith, 97–98. 3. Kate Berry Shepherd, as quoted in Smith and Smith, 104. Linden 1. Eva Davis,“Mrs. Agnes Brabston’s‘Linden’ Originally Home of John Vick,” Vicksburg Evening Post, 1937. 2. Emilie McKinley, as quoted in Gordon Cotton, ed., From the Pen of a She-Rebel, 39. 3. Ibid., 54. Lonewood 1. Alan Huffman, Sultana, 167. 2. Ibid., 180. 3. Charles B. Kemper, from The Library of Southern Literature, 1,385. 4. Joseph Russell Compton, unpublished drawings and notations regarding Lonewood. 5. Blaine Russell, Vicksburg Evening Post, January 1941. Allen-Morgan House 1. Charles Clark, as quoted in Dunbar Rowland, Mississippi, volume I, 439. 2. Annie Clark Jacobs, as quoted in Elmo Howell, Mississippi Scenes, 172. 3. Charles Clark, as quoted in Howell, 172. Etania 1. Anonymous source from 1881 booklet, as quoted in Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy, Norman’s Natchez: An Early Photographer and His Town, 21. 2. Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy, Natchez: City Streets Revisited, 8. Glenwood 1. Nola Nance Oliver, Natchez: Symbol of the Old South, 48–49. 2. Ibid., 49. 3. Ibid. Kirkwood 1. Mrs. N. D. Deupree,“Some Historic Homes of Mississippi,” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, volume VI, 256. notes { 124 } notes 2. William Mercer Green, as quoted in Carol Lynn Mead, The Land Between Two Rivers, 63. 3. William McWillie, as quoted in Dunbar Rowland, Mississippi, volume II, 209–210. 4. Ibid., 211. 5. Rowland, 435. Austin Moore House 1. Mississippian, October 9, 1835. 2. Esther Cannon, unpublished paper in Mississippi Department of Archives and History files, dated December 30, 1996. Prospect Hill 1. Alan Huffman, Mississippi in Africa, 26. 2. Thomas Wade, as quoted in Huffman, 77. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Huffman, 118. Mount Hermon 1. Sarah Dickey, as quoted in Helen Griffith, Dauntless in Mississippi, 25. 2. H. C. Bullard, as quoted in Griffith, 64. 3. Dickey, as quoted in Griffith, 66. 4. Ibid., 72. 5. Hinds County Gazette, 1872, as quoted in Griffith, 72. 6. Dickey, as quoted in Griffith, 73. O. J. Moore House 1. Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State, 402. 2. Mrs. O. K. Gee, Sr., History of Middleton, Carroll County. 3. Commissioners’ Report to the Legislature, as quoted in David Sansing, The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History, 22. 4. Goodspeed’s Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, 467. 5. Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State, 402–403. Montebello 1. Oral history interview with Charlie Davenport, Mississippi Department of Archives and History files. 2. Ibid. 3. Ellen Shields’s memoir, unpublished manuscript in the collection of Surget Sanders. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. Ibid. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Natchez Courier & Democrat, February 9, 1899. Tullis-Toledano Manor 1. T. O. Hunter, Jr., as quoted by John Howell Stubbs, “A History of the Tullis House, Biloxi, Mississippi,” 9–10. Stephenson-McAlexander House 1. Holly Springs Gazette, November 1846. Three Oaks 1. Mrs. M. R. Valliant, as quoted in Papers of the Washington County Historical Society (PWCHS), 149–151. 2. W. W. Stone, as quoted in PWCHS, 251. 3. Amanda Rucks Dunn, as quoted in PWCHS, 228. 4. Stone, 255. Valleyside 1. Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State, 440. 2. Mary Govan, as quoted by Hubert H. McAlexander in A Southern Tapestry, 46. 3. Julia Dent Grant in John Y. Simon, ed., The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 105–106. 4. Ibid., 107. Grasslawn 1. Mrs. N. D. Deupree,“Some Historic Homes in Mississippi,” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 7 (1903): 326. 2. Project description for“Reconstruction of Grasslawn” in Mississippi Department of Archives and History files, n.d. Carter-Tate House 1. Thomas Hines, William Faulkner and the Tangible Past, 52. { 125 } notes Llangollen 1. Charles Dahlgren, quoted in the Daily Democrat, January 24, 1886. 2. A. J. Downing, The...