Mount Locust Historic House

The Mount Locust historic house (c. 1784) is one of the oldest structures in Mississippi. The house sits atop a tract of land just off the Natchez Trace that was originally used for farming by the home’s original owners William and Paulina Ferguson. The grounds of Mount Locust include an enslaved person cemetery, the Ferguson-Chamberlain cemetery, and a brick kiln site, where slaves made the bricks to build parts of the Ferguson-Chamberlain home.