Sea Song Plantation

Legend credits President Jackson with building Sea Song in 1815; local historians say it confuses him with his adopted son. Andrew Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sarah, left the Hermitage in 1856 after the state bought it, and a deed recorded in March 1857 gave them 1,920 acres here. Uncle Ben and Creasy, enslaved people brought from the Hermitage, tended the place, and Ned and Phill were to help rebuild the house after a fire in 1858. Some enslaved people were sold to make ends meet. A sheriff's sale of Jackson's property was ordered in 1861.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 13 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.
• 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.
• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Gulfside Assembly — steps away
• Brown's Vineyard — 2.6 mi
• Pearl Rivers — 2.8 mi
• 100 Men D.B.A. Hall — 4.8 mi