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Hurricane Plantation was a plantation house located near Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the home of Joseph Emory Davis (1784–1870), the oldest brother of...

(1784-1870); it had previously been a part of Joseph Davis's much larger Hurricane Plantation, which it adjoined on a bend of the Mississippi River twenty miles...

1863) was an American planter, letter writer, and the châtelaine of Hurricane Plantation. She was married to Joseph Emory Davis, the older brother of Confederate...

Wyoming Hurricane Plantation, near Vicksburg, Mississippi Hurricane Ridge, in Olympic National Park, Washington Hurricane Hill Guelph Hurricanes, now Cambridge...

This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register...

Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous...

owned most of the property. There he established the 5,000-acre Hurricane Plantation as a model slave community. Davis Bend was about 15 miles south of...

became manager of supply and shipping for Joseph Emory Davis at Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend. Ben Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudoun...

American Civil War, Joseph Davis developed his 5,000 acres (20 km2) Hurricane Plantation for cotton production on the peninsula. He worked to develop a model...

Mississippi where his brother Joseph had developed Davis Bend into Hurricane Plantation, which eventually had 1,700 acres (690 ha) of cultivated fields with...

the 1820s, Joseph Davis developed the Hurricane Plantation at Davis Bend, Mississippi. He left the plantations in 1862 during the American Civil War,...

returned to Mississippi to develop his Brierfield Plantation next to his brother's Hurricane Plantation. Joseph gave Jefferson the land, called Brierfield...

at age 17, Howell was invited to spend the Christmas season at Hurricane Plantation, the 5,000 acres (20 km2) property of family friends Joseph Emory...

Emory Davis of Hurricane Plantation. Ursino adjoined Jefferson Davis' Brierfield Plantation which in turn bordered Hurricane Plantation. By 1842 Ursino...

Felicity Plantation is a historic sugarcane plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located along Louisiana...

Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the...

African American empowerment. Born into slavery on Joseph Davis' Hurricane plantation in Warren County, Mississippi, in February 1843, Montgomery was the...

Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more...

planters in Mississippi, he enslaved at least 345 people on his Hurricane Plantation. Sam Davis (1842–1863), Confederate soldier executed by Union forces...

Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of...