Rosswood is a historic Southern plantation located off of Mississippi Highway 552, in Lorman,

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, USA. It was listed on the

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in 1978.National Register of Historic Places
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History

It was built as a

cotton plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tobacco ...

for Dr Walter Ross Wade (1810–1862) and his wife Mabella Chamberlain. The architectural style of the

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

Greek Revival Greek Revival architecture is a architectural style, style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, ...

. It has 14 rooms, with high ceilings, ten fireplaces, columned galleries, a winding staircase and original slave quarters. Before the

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, Wade and his wife held parties and balls and entertained guests. The property spanned and had 105 slaves. It is now only . During the Civil War, it was used as a hospital for the

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. In 1975, Colonel Walt Hylander and his wife Jean purchased the plantation and restored it. It was opened to the public as a house museum, and used for weddings and special occasions. In March 2019, Rosswood permanently closed to the public and is now a private residence. The Hylanders have passed the house on to their son Ray, and the house is now for sale. Google Rosswood for sale.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi Houses in Jefferson County, Mississippi Greek Revival houses in Mississippi Plantation houses in Mississippi National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Mississippi Slave cabins and quarters in the United States Cotton plantations in Mississippi {{Mississippi-NRHP-stub

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