Woodland Plantation (Church Hill, Mississippi)

It is located off of the east side of Mississippi Highway 553 four miles south of Church Hill. ==History==

Woodland Plantation was created when James Gillam Wood, who lived on his 1,000 acre Auburn Plantation in Church Hill, Mississippi, was in the process of setting up each of his children with their own, nearby, cotton growing operations. Oak Grove, The Cedars, Lagonia and Woodland were four of these properties. Robert also had Ursino Plantation in Warren County, Mississippi that he ran with the help of his brother Edgar. In 1860 Robert had 132 slaves in Warren County. The relationship between the Davis brothers and the Wood brothers became strained over the years, because the Wood brothers would not maintain the levees at Ursino Plantation. Somehow, Ann Foster's daughter (Mary A. Foster Lloyd) owned Woodland by 1879. After cotton farming ended, Woodland is known to have primarily been used to grow hay to supply the neighborhood cattle and to grow pecans. In 1936, Philip Heath Marble (1890–1965) purchased Woodland Plantation and restored it. His daughter, Phyllis Marble, lived there until she sold it in 1974. ==Architecture==

The architectural style of the plantation house is at once Gothic Revival and Greek Revival. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 22, 1979. The house is one and a half stories. The house originally had a front and rear gallery, which also connected to the separate kitchen building. A 35 by 15 foot center hall had two 19 by 19 foot rooms on each side. Two of these rooms had marble fireplace mantles and two had wooden mantles. The first floor rooms had 12 and 1/2 foot high ceilings, pocket doors between the front and back parlor, and jib doors under some of the windows to provide direct access to the galleries. A stairway in the center hall rose to the second (1/2) floor, which was originally just one big room. ==References==