Davis Plantations

Across the river lies Davis Bend, where Joseph Davis ran Hurricane and his younger brother Jefferson held Brierfield. Joseph's enslaved community had a school and a court on which enslaved residents sat in judgment, and overseers were barred from using the lash. Benjamin Montgomery, enslaved there, ran the landing store and kept his own books. In 1866 Joseph Davis sold the land to Montgomery. A flood later cut a channel that turned the bend into an island, and in 1887 Montgomery's son Isaiah led residents upriver to found Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bruin State Park — 11 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 17 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.

More markers nearby

• Franklin Plantation — 1.2 mi
• Henry Watkins Allen — 1.2 mi
• Linwood Plantation — 6.6 mi
• Winter Quarters Plantation — 7.5 mi