| A wood-frame galleried cottage with nine-bay fenestration on the front facade (in the pattern of w-d-w-w-d-w-w-d-w). The core plan consists of three equally-sized rooms in a row, each with its own door to the front gallery. The house has some Federal Style interior detailing, including three nice Federal mantels. Combining construction techniques and features more commonly associated with the Creole building tradition in Louisiana, the residence at Bedford Plantation is a well-preserved example of a vernacular architectural form indigenous to the lower Mississippi Valley but rarely constructed in Mississippi. It is one of the few documented structures in the state employing brick-nogged, heavy-frame construction. The house, which stylistically dates from the late 1820s or early 1830s, was the seat of planter Thomas Hall's 6,318-acre plantation, which he began assembling in 1831. The property was the site of a Civil War skirmish on October 2, 1864, involving Col. Embury D. Osbund's troops as they moved from Vicksburg to Natchez. This house was listed on the National Register on 16 November 1978, with 81 acres of land. |