W. Main St., Mound Bayou, Mississippi. County/parish: Bolivar.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 11, 1976. NRIS 76001092.
1 contributing building.
The I. T. Montgomery House is a historic house on 302 West Main Street in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, United States. Built in 1910, it was the home of Isaiah Montgomery (1847–1924), a former slave of Jefferson Davis who was instrumental in founding Mound Bayou, one of the first economically successful towns established by freed slaves.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and a Mississippi Landmark in 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73890559