Elmwood Manor

Before it was Jesse Cowand's, the land came to Louis Alexis Lassassier by Spanish grant, and his widow, Melite Macarty Lassassier, held it in 1823. Cowand bought it between 1826 and 1829; he died in 1852, and his widow, Elizabeth, lived here until the Civil War. The roof frame of large beams joined with wooden pegs drew praise from preservationists, and local architect Fred Wagner called the house the most important example of historic architecture in Hancock County, Federal in style with Caribbean galleries. Hurricane Katrina washed it away on August 29, 2005.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 16 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 23 mi
  A barrier island twelve miles off the Mississippi coast with a brick fort burned half-built in 1861, a Union prison camp, and the garrison post of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard.
• Crosby Arboretum — 23 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 26 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.

More markers nearby

• St. Augustine's Seminary — 0.7 mi
• 100 Men D.B.A. Hall — 1.4 mi
• Old Shieldsboro — 1.4 mi
• St. Stanislaus College — 1.6 mi