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Preserving the place where people lived and worked
Concord Quarters offers a different model for preserving and sharing Natchez history.
Deborah and Gregory Cosey restored Concord Quarters, a surviving building that housed enslaved people and contained a kitchen, as a bed and breakfast. The restoration received a Heritage Award of Merit from the Mississippi Heritage Trust in 2020.
The foundation describes Concord Quarters as the only free-standing slave dwelling in Mississippi listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Keeping this structure visible changes what visitors can encounter: the story is not confined to a grand house that no longer stands.
A restored building cannot tell every story by itself. It can, however, make room for questions about the lives of those who labored there and about what our community chooses to preserve.
Sources and context
This profile is based on the foundation’s published account. It is not an interview with the Coseys.