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My journey eventually led me back to Flowery Mound.
The house, sadly, is gone. A tornado swept through the plantations along the Black River, taking most of the homes with it. Everything was lost; photographs, letters, all the precious artifacts that historians seek to keep the past alive.
But through my genealogical research, I met a descendant of Beasley Campbell who still lived in the area, and took me to Flowery Mound.
The ancient Indian mound is now the resting place of Joseph E. Miller. Beasley Campbell's grave is nearby.
I was able to stand on the mound and look over the Black River and imagine what the plantation must have been like in days past.
A map by a local genealogist helped me imagine the plantations in days gone by. Here you can see Flowery Mound, Magnolia, and the Hedges on the southern bank of the Black River. (It was later dammed off to make a lake)
