Airliewood

The mansion stands on the lot of Joseph Chalmers's earlier house. William Henry Coxe began it in 1857 after his wife died, probably with Fletcher Sloan as architect and a Prussian carpenter, Franz Rittlemeyer, among the craftsmen. After Van Dorn's raid, Grant occupied it at Coxe's invitation, and his family spent Christmas 1862 there. In 1863 and 1864 federal troops damaged the place, shooting the tops off the iron fence and gate. Coxe lost most of his fortune, and on September 30, 1865, he rode his horse up the main staircase; it fell on him and killed him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum — 0.3 mi
  The house in Holly Springs where Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, now a museum of African American history, art and culture.
• Rust College — 0.6 mi
  The first historically Black college founded in Mississippi, started in 1866 in a Holly Springs church by a formerly enslaved minister and a white Methodist clergyman.

More markers nearby

• Mississippi Central R.R. Campaign — steps away
• Sherwood Bonner (McDowell) — steps away
• Walthall Home — 0.3 mi
• R. L. Burnside — 0.5 mi