page_title: Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi)
hierarchical_section_title: Homewood Plantation (Natchez, Mississippi)
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the front corner of Homewood Mansion, which was located just north of Natchez, Mississippi. It burned in 1940.
context_page_description: Homewood Plantation was a historic plantation with a mansion of the same name located on it in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Built in 1860 as a wedding present for the Southern belle Catherine Hunt, the daughter of planter David Hunt, the mansion remained unscathed during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. By the early twentieth century, it was used as a shooting location for 1915 classic film The Birth of a Nation. The mansion burnt down in 1940.
context_section_description: Homewood Plantation was a historic plantation with a mansion of the same name located on it in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. Built in 1860 as a wedding present for the Southern belle Catherine Hunt, the daughter of planter David Hunt, the mansion remained unscathed during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. By the early twentieth century, it was used as a shooting location for 1915 classic film The Birth of a Nation.  The mansion burnt down in 1940.
caption: Homewood Mansion in 1936
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