Mr. Little married his thirteen-year-old ward, and sent her to Baltimore to be educated. It was while she was in school that he built this mansion in which to receive her when she returned.
It is believed that the ground immediately back of Rosalie is the site of the great Indian massacre of the French in 1729.
Railroad tracks and driveways have cut through the acres that were originally Rosalie private grounds, but the yard and gardens of the old home are well kept and are filled with old-fashioned flowers and shrubbery of days long gone.
Rosalie was General Grant’s headquarters during the Federal occupation of Natchez in the War Between the States.
The present occupants display with much pride the huge four-poster mahogany bed in which General Grant slept during his stay at this old house.
Rosalie has been purchased by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and will be maintained as a public shrine. Many of the encroaching industrial buildings will soon give way to the original acreage that formed the gardens of Rosalie.
This Bed in Rosalie Has a Prayer Pad at Its Side.
Parsonage
