Laurel Hill Plantation (Jefferson County, Mississippi)

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Laurel Hill Plantation was a historic plantation near Rodney in Jefferson County, Mississippi, about two miles southeast of Rodney, in a bend of the Mississippi River once known as Petit Gulf. It is noted for the design of its main house and for helping develop Petit Gulf cotton, a cotton hybrid grown there. The house was built about 1815 for Dr. Rush Nutt, a scientist and agriculturalist, and later passed to his son Haller Nutt (1816–1864). Rush Nutt developed the Petit Gulf cotton and was among the first to use a steam engine to power cotton gins. The site has been documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey. Records about whether the house is officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places are unclear, and there is another equally named Laurel Hill Plantation in Adams County that is listed on the National Register. This is a separate historic site with its own listing.