Blantonia Plantation

Blantonia Plantation House is a historic Southern plantation of Blantonia in Lorman, Jefferson County, Mississippi. John Blanton and Martha Belton "Patsy" Whitaker established the plantation in the early 1800s. John Blanton, originally from Virginia, moved to Kentucky about 1800 and eventually the family moved and established the plantation Blantonia, just south of Vicksburg.[2] Blantonia Plantation House was initially constructed in 1812 as a pile-and-a-half "expanded I-house".[3] Their son William Whitaker Blanton is listed in census records in Jefferson County, would establish the second Blantonia plantation which is now the area of Greenville, Mississippi in Washington County to the north along the Mississippi River.[2]

Blantonia Plantation House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Lorman, Mississippi
Coordinates	31°48′6″N 90°55′55″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1812
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	93000145[1]
Added to NRHP	March 4, 1993

Overview

The plantation house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 4, 1993.[1] The architectural style is Greek Revival.[4]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Blanton-Smith Collection, Department of Archives & Special Collections, the University of Mississippi Libraries
3. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Registration Form Form 10-900. OMB No. 10024-0018. February 1, 1993
4. Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi, 1720–1980, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 58

Further reading

• Capace, Nancy. Encyclopedia of Mississippi, North American Book Distribution, 2001, 498.