Historic Sites - Ames Plantation
8 Ames Plantation
- A scene from a National Field Trial Championship at the Ames Plantation.
The 18,430-acre Ames Plantation is the site of several 19th century cotton plantations. The Wiley B. Jones house, home of the Jones family 1835-1846, and the Ames Manor House, built in 1847 for John W. Jones, have been restored. The Plantation also includes the Mount Comfort Store, Andrews Chapel Methodist Church, and the town site of Pattersonville. The Plantation was developed by Hobart Ames, an industrialist. At his death in 1945, the Hobart Ames Foundation was established and the facilities of the Plantation were made available to the University of Tennessee College of Agriculture for a demonstration farm featuring forestry and farm management projects. In 1987, the Ames History Project was begun to document the houses, grist mills, cemeteries, cotton gins, and roads that made this a thriving farming community before the Civil War brought an end to the plantation tradition in the south. The Plantation is the site of the National Field Trial Championship for bird dogs every February, an internationally known competition.
Ames Plantation
Web Site
4275 Ellington Road, Post Office Box 389, Grand Junction, TN 38039-0389
(901) 878-1067
