[2] Francis Griffin purchased land in 1831 on a high ridge bordering the Mississippi River where he established "Refuge Plantation".

[2] The Griffins lost much of their fortune during the Civil War, and were forced to sell the property.

A subsequent owner was Edmund Richardson, one of the wealthiest cotton growers in the south.

[4] The home remains today one of the best examples of a mid-nineteenth-century plantation house in Washington County.

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