[3] The Wyolah Plantation owner's house was built for Dr. Francis B. Coleman before the Civil War.

[6] Coleman owned 81 enslaved people in Jefferson County, Mississippi in the 1860 census.

[7] Coleman had a medical practice in Rodney, Mississippi and at his nearby Wyolah Plantation.

[9] In 1846 Doctor Coleman went to Mount Locust Plantation in Jefferson County to vaccinate some enslaved people.

[10] Coleman and his friend Thomas Affleck published a horticulture-related journal from Wyolah Plantation.