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Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana) / 30.02722°N 90.64056°W / 30.02722; -90.64056. 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 ...
Plantation heiress and manager Laura Lacoul Gore's (1861–1963) autobiography tells the family's history and her experience living at the plantation. Open to the public. 78001426 Laurel Valley Sugar Plantation: March 24, 1978: Thibodaux: Lafourche: 93000694 LeBeuf Plantation House: July 29, 1993: New Orleans: Orleans: Leonard Plantation: Not ...
Laura Plantation is a restored historic Louisiana Creole plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana. [2] Formerly known as Duparc Plantation, it is significant for its early 19th-century Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including two slave cabins.
Rene Beauregard House. Coordinates: 29°56′26″N 89°59′39″W. The Malus-Beauregard House, previously known as the Rene Beauregard house, is a home built in 1832-1833 and significantly altered in 1850's to a Greek Revival style [1] overlooking the Battle of New Orleans battlefield. Located in St. Bernard Parish about 6 miles east of the ...
Destrehan Plantation ( French: Plantation Destrehan) is an antebellum mansion, in the French Colonial style, modified with Greek Revival architectural elements. It is located in southeast Louisiana, near the town of the same name, Destrehan . During the 19th century, the plantation was a major producer of indigo and then sugarcane.
Nottoway Plantation, also known as Nottoway Plantation House is located near White Castle, Louisiana, United States.The plantation house is a Greek Revival- and Italianate-styled mansion built by enslaved African people and artisans for John Hampden Randolph in 1859, and is the largest extant antebellum plantation house in the South with 53,000 square feet (4,900 m 2) of floor space.
August 7, 2024 at 11:00 PM. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in ...
Horace Lawson Hunley (brother-in-law) 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. He also invested money in projects in which he saw potential.