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.