Church Hill, Mississippi

Church Hill is a small unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States.

[3] Church Hill was a community of wealthy cotton planters and enslaved people before the American Civil War.

[3][1] Soil erosion, which had been going on since well before the Civil War, caused the area to decline into a poor farming community with none of the land under cultivation by 1999.

[4] The fine craftsmanship and decorative details of the third church reflect the great wealth of the area planters in 1858.

[3] Church Hill was a community of wealthy cotton planters and the people whom they enslaved before the American Civil War.

[3] By this time soil erosion had caused the area to become a poor farming community, and it remained so throughout the twentieth century.

Wagners grocery store in Church Hill, believed to have been in operation in 1837
Springfield Plantation owner's residence
Christ Church cemetery
Map of Mississippi highlighting Jefferson County