The Lenoir Plantation

Most of this house dates from 1910, not the 1840s. Family history dates the house to 1847, but William S. Lenoir had it enlarged and classicized around 1910, using Aberdeen contractor Addison Brannin, whose double staircase copies the one at The Magnolias in Aberdeen. The National Register nomination, written in 1992, finds the plantation's enslaved people almost nowhere in the record; it mentions only a child's chair attributed to enslaved woodworkers, with no names or numbers. About 1,600 acres of plantation land still surrounded the house in 1992.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 10 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Waverley Mansion — 16 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 23 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.

More markers nearby

• Sandy Clay Rosenwald School — 2.5 mi
• Prairie — 3.2 mi
• Gulf Ordnance Plant — 3.3 mi
• Payne Field Site — 7.5 mi