Routhland (2)/ Dunleith/ Dunleith Historic Inn
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84 Homochitts St. Natchez, MS
Circa 1856. 2-story white mansion with 27 columned porches on all sides.
In 1849, Gen. Charles G. Dahlgreen and the widow Mary Routh Dahlgreen built the mansion on her inherited family land. The new home stands on a Spanish land grant of 700 acres. The original home, Routhland by Job Routh, had been built in the 1790s and was burned by lightning strike fire in 1855. Mary was their daughter. After Mary passed in 1859, Dahlgreen sold Routhland (2) to settle the estate. Mary's brother John Routh built a second Routhland on his property and became one of the largest cotton planters in the world.
In 1858, Alfred Vidal Davis bought the mansion and renamed it Dunleith.
About eight years later, in 1866, Davis sold to Hiriam Baldwin. He died the same year, and the property was purchased again by John R. Stockton. At some point, the bank Britton and Koontz assumed the estate.
Twenty years after Vidal sold Dunleith, in 1886, it was sold again to John Neibert Carpenter. Carpenter was the president of the Natchez Oil Company, the Natchez and Vidalia Packet Company and the Natchez Cotton Exchange. After Carpenter's death, his wife remained at the home. Then their son Nathaniel Leslie Carpenter inherited the estate. Next, the Carpenter's daughter Agnes resided there followed by her nephew and then the nephew's son. The Carpenter family remained in possession until 1976. Leslie Carpenter owned the home in the early twentieth century. About 1940, his widow and son J. N. Carpenter inherited it.
William F. Heins acquired Dunleith in 1976 and transformed it to a Bed & Breakfast.
In 1999, Edward Worley and their son Michael Worley bought the estate. They performed an extensive restoration to continue the property as an B&B and added a restaurant The Castle Restaurant & Pub.
In 2019, the manson still had 40 acres surrounding it, and was purchased by the J Collection. National Historic Landmark 1974 See Routhland
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