• Background
  • Documents
  • Sunflower Plantation Photos
    • 1936 June - Carl Mydans
    • 1937 June - Dorothea Lange
    • 1939 January - Russell Lee
    • 1939 October - Marion Wolcott
  • Other Places
    • Delta & Pine Land Company
    • Hillhouse (aka Rochdale) Farm
    • Aldridge Plantation
    • Belzoni
    • Clarksdale
    • Dyess Colony, Arkansas
    • Good Hope Plantation, Mileston, MS
    • Hopson
    • King and Anderson Plantation
    • Knowlton (Perthshire, MS)
    • Lexington
    • Marcella
    • Mileston
    • Mound Bayou
    • Scott
  • Comments
  • Background
  • Documents
  • Sunflower Plantation Photos
    • 1936 June - Carl Mydans
    • 1937 June - Dorothea Lange
    • 1939 January - Russell Lee
    • 1939 October - Marion Wolcott
  • Other Places
    • Delta & Pine Land Company
    • Hillhouse (aka Rochdale) Farm
    • Aldridge Plantation
    • Belzoni
    • Clarksdale
    • Dyess Colony, Arkansas
    • Good Hope Plantation, Mileston, MS
    • Hopson
    • King and Anderson Plantation
    • Knowlton (Perthshire, MS)
    • Lexington
    • Marcella
    • Mileston
    • Mound Bayou
    • Scott
  • Comments
  Sunflower Plantation

Marcella Plantation

Mileston is an unincorporated community located in Holmes County about 20 miles north of Yazoo City and 6 miles south of Tchula on Highway 49 East.  In the first half of the 20th century, several notable cotton plantations were in the area around Mileston.  Marcella Plantation was one of the larger ones.  Some others were Mileston Plantation, Good Hope Plantation and Refuge Plantation.

The Marcella Plantation was near Mississippi Highway 12 about 3 miles west of Mileston.  It was owned by the Jones family.  In the Fall of 1939 Marion Post Wolcott spent considerable time in the Mileston general area and the Marcella Plantation in particular.  These are her photos at Marcella.  
(She must have stayed in this area for quite some time.  We have 130 photos at Marcella plus 80 at Mileston and 14 at Good Hope.  Since it's September and (mostly) October, there are no photos of planting cotton or hoeing.)
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