oakland

Driving down the quiet residential street in the middle of town you could easily pass Oakland without really noticing. Were it not for the sign out front, driving by one might miss it altogether. Certainly it would be easy from the street to guess what awaits inside. The house was built in 1838. Its form is fine. Its ceilings are sixteen and a half feet high. There are fittings of Sheffield silver. There are gorgeus french wallcoverings and fine Empire furnishings.
There was lot of ooh and aah over at Oakland but the thing that most caught our attention was its family connections.
Throughout the home, the tours were a definite family affair.
Oakland's owner, Kate Don Brandon Green was receiving guests in the wide front hall. Her daughter showed visitors around one bedroom and across the hall, a granddaughter answered questions, in another.
One guest asked, " Did you have to be oh so careful growing up around these antiques?"
"Yes, we sure did," she said. "But you get used to it."
A cradle in the room will doubtless hold this generation's babies as it has in the past. In an adjacent room,  a suite of doll furniture bote testament to the family connections that are part of Oakland's past and future.
The matriarch is also connected to many other homes in the area through her great-great-great grandfather Gerard Brandon,  the first native born governor of Mississippi. Gov. Brandon acquired Selma Plantation in 1786 and is a near relative of Julia Nutt, the owner of Longwood.