Construction of the Colonel James Drane house began in 1846 using a water powered saw. The foundation and framing are secured with wooden pegs and the ceiling with squared nails. Moved to this location in 1981, the house is now owned and operated by the French Camp Academy. You are invited to visit the Drane House. The information station is in the 1840 Huffman Log Cabin. A sorghum mill adjacent to the cabin operates during the fall sorghum season. Open Monday through Saturday 8:30 to 5 p.m. Restoration of the Colonel James Drane home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places has been funded with assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the provisions of the Jobs Bill Program of 1983.
Lewis LeFleur first traded with the Choctaw Indians at a bluff now part of Jackson, Mississippi. About 1812, he established his stand 900 feet to the northeast on the Natchez Trace. Because of the storekeeper's nationality the area was often called "French Camp", a name retained by the present village. LeFleur married a Choctaw woman. Their famous son who changed his name to Greenwood Leflore, became a Choctaw chief and a Mississippi State Senator. For him are named the city of Greenwood and the county of Leflore.
A stone memorial marks a stage of the Natchez Trace at French Camp. The first highway opened through the lower south by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830 between the American government and the Choctaw Indians. The surrounding country became a part of the state of Mississippi. Here Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky commands rested on their way to join him in his coast campaign in the War of 1812, during which second struggle for American Independence, Mississippi took a heroic part. Presented to the town of French Camp by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution, November 10, 1915.
Us Department of Interior
National Park Service
Lewis LeFleur first traded with the Choctaw Indians at a bluff now part of Jackson, Mississippi. About 1812, he established his stand 900 feet to the northeast on the Natchez Trace. Because of the storekeeper's nationality the area was often called "French Camp", a name retained by the present village. LeFleur married a Choctaw woman. Their famous son who changed his name to Greenwood Leflore, became a Choctaw chief and a Mississippi State Senator. For him are named the city of Greenwood and the county of Leflore.
A stone memorial marks a stage of the Natchez Trace at French Camp. The first highway opened through the lower south by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830 between the American government and the Choctaw Indians. The surrounding country became a part of the state of Mississippi. Here Andrew Jackson's Tennessee and Kentucky commands rested on their way to join him in his coast campaign in the War of 1812, during which second struggle for American Independence, Mississippi took a heroic part. Presented to the town of French Camp by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution, November 10, 1915.
Us Department of Interior
National Park Service
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| Museum at French Camp |
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| Old wood burning stove on the back porch of the museum |
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| Side view of the Museum |
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| French Camp Bed and Breakfast Inn |
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| French Camp Blacksmith |
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| Anvil at the blacksmith's workshop |
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| Forge at the blacksmith's workshop |
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| Post office at French Camp used between 1848 to 1964 |
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| Information plaque about the Drane House at French Camp |
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| The Drane House |
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| Couch in the "breezeway" of the Drane House |
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| The shiny dots you see is a metal screen preventing you from going into the rooms. |
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| Spinning wheel, desk, and two rope beds in an upstairs room of the Drane House at French Camp |
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| Loom where cloth was woven in an upstairs room of the Drane House. |
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| Loom |
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| Child's bed on the landing between the two upstairs room |
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| Tiny narrow staircase leading down stairs. |
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| Back of the Blacksmith's workshop. |
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| Side view of the Drane House |
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| House which contains LeFleur's horse carriage. |
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| They raised cane and made sorghum syrup at French Camp. This Sugar House is still in operation. |
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| Grinding the cane by horse |
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| French Camp Bed and Breakfast Inn |
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| Current post office used in the town of French Camp |
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| Masonic Lodge 609 |
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| DAR monument to French Camp |
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