Overlooking the Mississippi River, The Briars is one of the best-known plantation homes in historic Natchez. Believed to have been built by John Perkins in the early 1820s, it was leased by William and Margaret Howell from 1827 to 1850. Their daughter Varina Banks Howell married Jefferson Davis in the parlor of The Briars on February 26, 1845.

The home is now a bed & breakfast.