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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
In 1890, the Delhi Institute was founded in Delhi, Louisiana; a Black private school affiliated with the A.M.E. church. [3] Delhi Institute was renamed to Lampton College; after a 1907 fire, the campus was moved to Alexandria, Louisiana, before being absorbed sometime after 1945 by Campbell College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Records show that he donated land ~60 feet x ~117 feet that were valued at $300 each to widows of friends and workers, both white and black. The donations took place in the years 1854–1873. His largest donation to a private individual named John B. Pittman was half of the property of Oak Grove Plantation in Lafourche Parish .
The Black Gold Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana is a race on turf for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses. First run in 1958, the race is named in honor of the 1924 Kentucky Derby winner and U. S. Racing Hall of Fame stallion Black Gold. It is tradition that the winning jockey of the race places flowers on the horse's ...
Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first person of African descent to hold the office of Louisiana treasurer.
Crescent Plantation is located on Walnut Bayou, Madison Parish, Tallulah, Louisiana.It was originally built in 1832 but a main section was constructed in 1855. [2] The plantation was the home of doctor D.M. and Elizabeth DeMoss Dancy from 1855 until after the Civil War.
Blue Larkspur (1926–1947) was a bay Kentucky-bred thoroughbred race horse.He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957, [1] and ranks Number 100 in The Blood-Horse's top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century.
Belle Grove, was a sugarcane plantation, on the banks of the Bayou Black, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, built in 1847. In 1881, it was purchased by James M. McBride from the Marcellus Daunis heirs. It was demolished in the 1950s. [1]