The plantation was established in 1825 by Isaac Worthington,[1][2] a Kentucky-born veteran of the War of 1812.[3] He named it after his daughter Annie's favorite fictional character in 1829.[1][3] Worthington lived here with his wife, Ann Taylor, their children (including future sheriff Thomas Worthington), and the Black people he enslaved.[3]
By 1858, Worthington built a mansion to serve as main residence and headquarters of the forced-labor farm,[1][3] which also acted as a town, partly due to its location on the shipping route between Memphis, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.[1] He also built "twelve stores, a post office", a school, and a church of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.[1] The mansion was destroyed in a flood in 1883.[1][3] In 1930, the entire plantation was taken over by another flood.[2] An old cemetery is still visible.[1]
An island on the Mississippi River called Worthington Island was named after the former plantation.[1]
