LIKES History News: 1853 -A final building was being constructed at the Elgin Plantation just south of Downtown Natchez. This was home to horticulturist Dr. John Carmichael Jenkins. Dr. Carmichael eventually became a planter and put his knowledge of horticulture to good use. The plantation is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Dr. Jenkins kept a diary and below are two entries from 1853. June 7: We are now getting in the stocks for sawing for the new house. . . . This building will be 40 feet long by 38 feet wide and have four rooms on the lower floor the lower front room a kitchen with oven attached next front room an ironing room, back of it a wash room back of kitchen a servants dining room upstairs 4 rooms one for school room and the remaining rooms for servants sleeping apartments. June 13: The old kitchen house is to be torn down also the house behind it used as a wash house, and sleeping rooms for servants. We shall also tear down the old cook kitchen for plantation and this will rid us of the old houses in yard. The wagons will soon have hauled over from The Forest [an adjoining plantation and the family home of Dr, Jenkinss wife, Annis Dunbar] the 16,000 brick I purchased. These brick will answer for the side walls and foundation of new kitchen house.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:44:57 +0000
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