Right on this road is COTTON PLANT, 0.7 m. (415 alt., 150 pop.), best kown for the PAUL RAINEY ESTATE. In 1898 Paul Rainey, sportsman and big game hunter, bought 11,000 acres and stocked them with wolves, bears, foxes, and pheasants. During Rainey's lifetime sportsmen came here to hunt and to attend the annual field trials. The Rainey house, now occupied by a sister of Rainey, is a plain with frame farmhouse that has lost much of the glamor of gay parties, hunt balls, and breakfasts associated with it during Rainey's lifetime. Since his death, in 1926 the game preserve has been abolished and the estate converted into small tenant farms known as Tippah Farms. Prevalent in the neighborhood is the belief the Rainey's death, reported to have occured while he was en route to Africa on a hunting expedition, actually did not happen, and that the hunter now lives incognito in Europe.
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