Saragossa, Historic plantation house in Natchez, United States
Saragossa is a plantation established in 1823 on Saragossa Road in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, where cotton was the main cash crop. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 24, 1980.
Saragossa was established in 1823 by Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), a cotton planter who became the second largest slaveowner in the Antebellum South. William St. John Elliot, also owner of D'Evereux, bought it in 1835; William G. Conner held it from 1849 and sold it back to Elliot in 1852. Winfield Gibson bought it that same year, and in 1855 Caroline Williams acquired it, bequeathing it to her daughter Anna and son-in-law Walton Pembroke Smith; the Smith family kept it until the 1970s.
Saragossa was a cotton plantation, and the people who owned it were planters: Stephen Duncan, who established it in 1823, was among the largest slaveholders in the Antebellum South. The property passed through several owners in the 1800s, including William St. John Elliot, who also owned D'Evereux, before the Smith family held it until the 1970s.
Saragossa lies on Saragossa Road in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, reached by car from the city. The property is privately owned, so the house and grounds are not open to visitors; the site can be viewed from the public road.
One family kept the property from the mid-1800s into the 1970s, which is remarkably long continuity for such places. This rare stability allowed many of the original features to survive largely unchanged.
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