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[Identification of item], in the Mount Helena Plantation Records, #530, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Prior to 1940

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• Commission merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Cotton--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Harris, George C. (George Carroll), 1833 or 4-1911.
• J.L. Harris & Co. (New Orleans, La.)
• Madison County (Miss.)--Economic conditions.
• Mount Helena Plantation (Madison County, Miss.)
• Plantations--Mississippi.

Mount Helena Plantation in Madison County, Miss., was owned by George C. Harris, Episcopal clergyman and planter of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn.

The collection contains letterpress copybooks and volumes containing letters and bills of Harris concerning management and financing of the plantation. Included are many letters to George C. Harris in Memphis, Tenn., from a cotton factor, J. L. Harris & Co., of New Orleans, and letters from George C. Harris to various individuals about payments of notes and ordering supplies for the plantation.