Mount Holly (Foote, Mississippi)

[3] In 1854, their widowed daughter, Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley, acquired 1,699 acres of land known as the Mount Holly Plantation for US$100,000.

[2] Made of red bricks and built with the forced labor of enslaved people, it has two stories and thirty-two rooms.

[7] The Dudleys entertained guests such as Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Albert Sidney Johnston, John C. Pemberton, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T.

[2] His grandson was the author Shelby Foote, whose 1949 novel Tournament is based on his father's loss of the family home.

[10] The house contains a historical marker commissioned by the National Society of Colonial Dames on an outside wall which reads: "Mount Holly, Ca.

1856, Excellent example of Italianate style steeped in history of the Mississippi Delta, built for Margaret (Johnson) Erwin Dudley, an early settler's daughter, used as headquarters for relief committees in 1927 flood, marked by Mississippi State Society, National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century, October 10, 1998.