 Lansdowne is located on M.L.King, Jr. Road, one mile north of the Natchez city limits (The driveway into the plantation is now known as Marshall Road).George Matthews Marshall, a Princeton University graduate, and his new bride Charlotte Hunt built the mansion on 727 acres previously known as the 'Ivy Tract' in 1852-1853, having been given the land by Charlotte's rich, planter, father David Hunt (1779-1861).