Scott Ford Houses, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and activating one of Mississippi’s most significant African American historic sites. Located in Jackson’s Farish Street Historic District, the Scott Ford Houses are rare surviving examples of Black women’s leadership, caregiving labor, and property ownership in the post-Emancipation South.
The organization stewards the historic homes at 136 and 138 East Cohea Street, built between 1891 and 1892 by Mary Green Scott, a formerly enslaved woman, and later home to her daughter Virginia Scott Ford, a respected community midwife.
