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The Forest Plantation

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The Forest Plantation was the home and grave of William Dunbar (1749-1810), a Scot settler who surveyed the boundary line between the USA and Spain in 1798 and led the first exploration of the Louisiana Purchase in 1804. He was a world-famed scientist and inventor in Mississippi Territory.
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