[2][3][4] It retains its original antebellum 230 acre size, and has the tradition of primarily supplying hay to the area cattle.

[4] It is located off of the east side of Mississippi Highway 553 four miles south of Church Hill.

[7] Robert also had Ursino Plantation in Warren County, Mississippi that he ran with the help of his brother Edgar.

[6] Ursino was formed in 1836 when James Wood and his son Robert purchased a total of 2,083 acres at Davis Bend, located south of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, for $103,390.

[6] By the 1861 outbreak of the Civil War, overseers ran Ursino and the Wood brothers lived in Jefferson County.

[6] Edgar Wood married David Hunt's son Abijah's widow and moved to Calviton Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi.

[6] Due to financial difficulty immediately after the Civil War in 1866, Robert sold Woodland Plantation for $10,000 to Ann L.

[4] In that year Mary defaulted on a loan and had to transfer ownership of Woodland to Jefferson College in Washington, Adams County, Mississippi, who had provided her financing.

[4] In about 1910 the boll weevil destroyed the local cotton farming, which had been the main crop since before the Civil War when slaves worked the land.