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September 27, 1980. The Houmas, also known as Burnside Plantation and currently known as Houmas House Plantation and Gardens, is a historic plantation complex and house museum in Burnside, Louisiana. The plantation was established in the late 1700s, with the current main house completed in 1840. It was named after the native Houma people, who ...
The United Houma Nation, who identify as descendants of the Houma people, have been recognized by the state as a tribe since 1972, but are not recognized by the federal government. [ 1 ] According to the tribe, as of 2023 [update] they have more than 17,000 enrolled tribal citizens [ 2 ] residing within a six- parish area that encompasses 4,750 ...
The Orange Grove Plantation House is a historic house on a former plantation in Terrebonne Parish, about eight miles away from Houma, Louisiana. It was built in 1850 for John C. Beatty, a sugar planter who owned slaves. [2] [3] The plantation spanned 2,470 acres of land when it was sold at auction shortly after Beatty's death in 1857. [3]
The parish seat of Houma was named after the Houma people.The native word houma means red, and the tribe's war emblem was the crawfish.Historians say the Houma are related to the Muskogean-speaking Choctaw, and migrated into the area from present-day Mississippi and Alabama.
Ashland Plantation, also known as the Belle Helene or Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation, is a historic building, built in 1841, that was a plantation estate and home of Duncan Farrar Kenner. Located in Darrow, Louisiana, in Ascension Parish. [2] The manor house is an example of antebellum Greek Revival architecture. [3]
Description. 1. Ardoyne Plantation House. Ardoyne Plantation House. November 1, 1982. ( #82000469) Northwest of Houma on Louisiana Highway 311. 29°38′57″N 90°49′10″W.
70360, 70363-64. Area code. 985. FIPS code. 22-36255. Website. www.tpcg.org. Houma (/ ˈhoʊmə / HOH-mə) [2] is the largest city in and the parish seat of [3] Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.
The Residence Plantation House is a historic house on a former plantation in Houma, Louisiana, U.S.. It was built in 1898 for Roberta Barrow, the daughter of sugar planter Robert Ruffin Barrow. [2] Her father lived in a house on the plantation; Roberta "demolished her father's antebellum home and built the current structure on its site." [2]