Jacob Thompson's "Home Place"

Historian Joel Williamson wrote that Thompson, by the late antebellum years, was becoming one of the wealthiest men in northeastern Mississippi, with most of his wealth in land and enslaved people. That fortune stood behind the mansion here. By 1844 he lived in Oxford, joined the first board of trustees of the University of Mississippi and helped found St. Peter's Episcopal Church. After years abroad he returned under amnesty in 1869 to find the house used as a Union hospital, then looted and burned in August 1864. He moved to Memphis.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rowan Oak — steps away
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• Oxford Square — 0.6 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 0.9 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Casey Jones Railroad Museum — 16 mi
  The old Illinois Central depot in Water Valley, where Casey Jones worked in the 1890s, with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker for the songs written about his death in 1900.

More markers nearby

• Delta Gamma Fraternity — 0.4 mi
• Theora Hamblett House — 0.6 mi
• Hilgard Cut — 0.6 mi
• St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal — 0.6 mi