Rose Hill Plantation

Choctaw County · on US-70, two miles east of Hugo

Rose Hill was one of six plantations along the Red River owned by Robert M. Jones (Choctaw) before the Civil War. The two-story mansion at Rose Hill served as a summer residence and was renowned across the region for its extravagance. Enslaved Black laborers, as well as free whites and Choctaws, worked on a plantation that contained a steam gin, saltworks, gristmill, store, and cotton and corn fields. Jones died at Rose Hill on February 22, 1873. Descendants of those formerly enslaved by Jones continue to reside in the area.

The Rose Hill site and Jones family cemetery is approximately one mile south of this marker's location. Note from the marker program.

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