hillier and relatively less desirable for farming. In 1839, the US government issues a land-grant for the Mitchell – Foster – Young property, east of the town of Oxford, to Benjamin M. Mitchell, who apparently did not live on the property, but did live in Lafayette County. He applied for and received a brand from the newly formed Lafayette County, and used the property for his cattle that roamed freely. He likely built the original 20’ x 20’ log cabin c1840 for his overseers. The original owner sold the property in 1847 to the Fosters, a farming family of six that lived in the Paris community of Lafayette County, just south of Oxford. They were responsible for renovating the one room log cabin, converting it to a three-room house with an east-to-west gable roof. It took them several years to construct the addition to the house. In the 1860 US Census, they were still living in the Paris community. The Fosters likely completed the house and moved before the outbreak of the Civil War. By the time of the 1870 US Census, they are living in the house. This large farming family owned the house until 1894. During the time they owned the property and lived in the house, it is likely the final construction was completed. George W. Young's father-in-law, Edward Henry Woodward, bought this property and the adjacent property to the east in 1900, and along with his son, James Richard Woodward, moved their families from the Caswell Community just northeast of Oxford. Their families lived on the adjoining parcels of land and they shared the farming responsibilities. Things were going so well that Richard bought two more quarter sections bordering on the farm in 1902. They now owned 540 acres. Then everything changed for Richard. Henry died in 1904, and Henry's wife, Richard's mother, died a year later. Richard or someone very close to the family successfully convinced his sister Claudia and her new husband George W. Young to sell his farm in Panola County and to move to the property, where Claudia's parents had lived until their recent death. George, Claudia, and their three children moved from Sardis to Lafayette County in 1905, and he farmed the property until 1942. Description The George Wright Young House is located east of Oxford, Mississippi. The house is a two-story, side-gabled, center-hall planter's cottage with a rear ell. The