In 1848, James Brown built the Dogwood Ridge Plantation as an 8000 acre cotton plantation. Twenty-three years later, I n 1871, James Martin Heathman married Lillie Brown, the daughter of James Brown, and purchased the plantation. He renamed it the Heathman Plantation (it was later owned and operated for some years by the Billups family and was called Billups Plantation). The commissary was added to Heathman in 1911 and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The commissary is a two-story, 4,000 square foot brick building, surrounded by a stately grove of oak trees. It is also bordered by the beautiful Indian bayou and cotton, corn, and soybean fields.
Heathman Plantation Commissary 