The following was compiled by Mimi Miller, Historic Natchez Foundation, c.1986:

"Although the National Register nomination for Rosemont assigns a date range of c.1810 to 1817 and associates the house with Jefferson Davis as his boyhood home, no stylistic details exist to support a construction date in the territorial period. According to Goodspeed's BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF MISSISSIPPI, Samuel and Jane Davis migrated to Wilkinson County from Kentucky in 1811 (Vol I, p. 622). In 1817, Samuel Davis applied for a patent on the southwest quarter of Section 26, Township 2 North, Range 2 West, the 164.45-acre portion of the Rosemont property that contains the existing house site (Tract Book of Original Entries, p. 128). The Davises named their new house Poplar Grove.

"Rosemont was most likely constructed in the 1830s or 1840s by Jefferson Davis' sister Lucinda Davis Stamps and her husband William. According to the National Register nomination, the Stamps acquired the property prior to 1831 and resided there until 1896 and changed the name to Rosemont. That Samuel and Jane Davis' house was known as Poplar Grove and that the Stamps called their house Rosemont may represent more than a change of name for an existing house -- it could indicate that the Stamps built a separate house on the same property, leaving Poplar Grove for Mrs. Davis.

"Stylistically, Rosemont exhibits features consistent with a building built in the 1830s or '40s. The proportions and the scale of the house are not typical of territorial period architecture. No earlier molding or other early millwork exists anywhere, not even in the upper half story, that would indicate an earlier house was later remodeled. All details of the house, including mantel pieces, doors, and windows, are typical of an consistent with buildings dating to the late Federal and early Greek Revival transitional period, and no indications exist to prove that an earlier house was remodeled. The unbroken slope of the gable roof with undercut gallery is also not typical of territorial period architecture which typically exhibits a broken slope gable."

This house was listed on the National Register on 30 December 1974, with 270 acres of land, from a nomination prepared by MDAH architectural historian Elizabeth Reynolds.

It is include Included in "A Guide to Early American Homes – South" (1956) (p. 144), "Shrines to Yesterday" (1968), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp. 52-53), "Old Homes of Mississippi, Volume I: Natchez and the South" (1977) (pp. 13-14), "Plantation Homes of Louisiana and the Natchez Area" (1982), "Great Houses of Mississippi" (2004) (pp. 11-13), "Louisiana Architecture 1714-1820" (2004) (p. 177), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020). (p.23, ND6).