Annandale Plantation

John Taylor Johnstone, born on April 28, 1801, migrated with his family to Mississippi from Hillsborough, North Carolina, about 1820. He eventually obtained a number of farms totaling and became wealthy by planting and harvesting cotton. The Johnstones had two daughters, Frances Ann and Helen Scrymgeour Johnstone, and two sons, Samuel and Noah Thompson Johnstone. Both sons died in 1840, the year the family moved to Mannsdale. When Frances Johnstone married William J. Britton in 1844, her father built a plantation house near Mannsdale for the couple as a gift. Completed in 1846 and named Ingleside, the Italianate house, with a wide front facade, contained eight bedrooms, dressing rooms, a parlor, library, dining room, breakfast room, and an office. During the American Civil War, Margaret Johnstone cared for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers and supplied money and material to the military. Each has its own golf club, also on the former plantation lands, known as the Annandale Golf Club and the Reunion Golf and Country Club. ==Folklore==

Annandale Plantation has two ghost stories associated with it that have been published in at least two books. One, "The Ghosts of Annandale", in Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts by Kathryn Tucker Windham details the supposed hauntings. One ghost is claimed in the story to be that of Annie Devlin, a former governess for Helen who died at the Annandale mansion in June 1860 and was purported to haunt its halls until the night it burned in 1924. The other is reportedly that of Helen Johnstone. The story claims that the ghost of Helen now weeps at the grave of Henry Vick, her former fiancé, in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross. == See also ==