Blythewood Plantation

Before the present house there was a cotton plantation on this ground, with an earlier mansion that later burned. Daniel Hardy Sanders had the replacement built to a Colonial Revival design by Drake and Anderson, with construction running from 1885 to 1888, and the National Register listed it on June 25, 1982. The land traces to a Spanish grant to Reliegh Self. Amite City had grown as a railroad stop and a refuge for New Orleans families fleeing yellow fever, and this house was built to overlook that town.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 25 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

More markers nearby

• Church of the Incarnation — 0.5 mi
• C.P.'s Station — 0.6 mi
• Independence — 6.6 mi
• Tangipahoa — 9.8 mi