Wyolah Plantation

The Wyolah Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi.^[2][3][4] It is located off the Mississippi Highway 553.^[3]

Wyolah Plantation
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Church Hill, Mississippi
Coordinates	31°42′7.56″N 91°14′49.78″W
Area	60.4 acres (24.4 ha)
Architectural style	Greek Revival architecture
NRHP reference No.	85001168[1]
Added to NRHP	May 30, 1985

Overview

The Wyolah Plantation owner's house was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the Civil War.^[4] The architectural style of the plantation house is Greek Revival.^[2][5] It is thought that maybe Coleman named Wyolah after a place in Ireland.^[6] Coleman owned 81 enslaved people in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census.^[7]

Coleman had a medical practice in Rodney, Mississippi and at his nearby Wyolah Plantation.^[8] In the WPA Slave Narrative Collection for the state of Arkansas, former Jefferson County, Mississippi slave Peter Brown told of a time when he was a slave on David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation and Coleman came to care for his parents, who had contracted cholera.^[9] In 1846 Doctor Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some enslaved people.^[10]

Coleman and his friend Thomas Affleck published a horticulture-related journal from Wyolah Plantation.^[8]

Wyolah was purchased by the Reddy family, and later by the Thomas O'Quinn, Jr. family.^[11] In 1984 Wyolah was owned by Dr. James W. and Juel F. Delasho and consisted of 110.44 acres, of which 60.44 acres was nominated as a historic site.^[12] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 30, 1985.^[2][3]

As of 2016^[update], filmmaker Tate Taylor is the owner of Wyolah.^[6]