Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832.
Evergreen Plantation: April 27, 1992: Wallace: St. John the Baptist: Composed of 39 buildings, Evergreen Plantation is an intact major antebellum plantation complex of the Southern United States. [6] [7] Open to visitors. 88000102
Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798 – 1875) was one of the owners of the most land and slaves in the southern United States before the American Civil War.He owned sixteen plantations, mostly in Louisiana, and had large landholdings in Texas.
There is also a National Historic Landmark, Evergreen Plantation, and the Willow Grove cemetery for descendants of the formerly enslaved which would have been adjacent to the 275-foot-high grain ...
It is the site of Evergreen Plantation, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992. Evergreen is unusual for having 22 surviving slave quarters buildings. It is one of the most complete plantations in the South. Because of its significance, it was selected as one of the sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana), listed on the NRHP in Louisiana; Evergreen Plantation in Brazoria County, Texas; belonged to Alexander Calvit and was later known as Herndon Plantation. Evergreen Plantation in Prince George County, Virginia, birthplace of Edmund Ruffin. Evergreen (Haymarket, Virginia) NRHP in Prince William County ...
Evergreen is located at (30.952856, -92.109068 [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2 ), all land.
The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.