Ella Sharp Museum
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In 1855 Abraham Wing purchased this farm for his widowed daughter Mary. Within a year she married Dwight Merriman, and under their guidance, “Hillside” became a model farm, with over six hundred acres of orchards and cultivated fields. In 1881 their first and only surviving child, Ella, married John C. Sharp, attorney and later state senator.
Ella died in 1912, leaving the farm to the city of Jackson as a park. The house was opened as a museum in 1965.
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