Source: American Preservation Magazine December-January 1978
"The story of Waverly Plantation begins in the 1830's with George Hampton Young (1799-1881). Young was a graduate of the Collumbus College of Law School, and returned to his native Georgia where he served in the state Legislature. He was then appointed secretary to the U. S. Land Commissioner, and came to Mississippi to aid in the sale of Chicksaw lands after the 1832 Treaty of Pontotoc. Young decided to stay, and began acquiring what eventually became a plantation of 50,000 acres along the Tombigbee River. The house began in 1840 and was completed in 1852. Waverly was named after popular novels of Sir Walter Scott. Colonel Young became a man of great wealth, and Waverly was an important center in commerce and society. Although Mrs. Young died the year the house was finished, the Colonel raised their 10 children, and lavish parties were frequent. His sons all served in the Confederate Army, and it was one of them, Captain Billy Young, who lived in the house until his death in 1913.