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Judge Poché Plantation House. / 30.01222°N 90.82694°W / 30.01222; -90.82694. The Judge Felix Poché Plantation House is a historic house in Convent, Louisiana. It was built c. 1870 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 3, 1980. The house's name derives from its ownership by Louisiana Supreme Court Justice ...
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.
Occupation. Lawyer, Justice. Profession. Attorney, Judge. Felix Pierre Poché (May 18, 1836 – June 21, 1895) was a justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from April 5, 1880, to April 5, 1890. Born in St. James Parish, Louisiana to a family of French Acadian origin, [1] [2] [3] Poché was educated at the public schools of Louisiana until he ...
January 3, 2001 [2] Shown here hidden by trees is Magnolia Plantation House, located adjacent to the Cane River Creole National Historical Park in south Natchitoches Parish. Magnolia Plantation is a former cotton plantation in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001, significant as one of the ...
Perique (/ pəˈriːk /) is a type of tobacco from Saint James Parish, Louisiana, known for its strong, powerful, and fruity aroma. When the Acadians made their way into this region in 1776, the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were cultivating a variety of tobacco with a distinctive flavor. A farmer named Pierre Chenet is credited with first ...
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.
Designated NHL. May 30, 1974 [ 2] The Parlange Plantation House ( French: Plantation Parlange) is a historic plantation house at Louisiana Highway 1 and Louisiana Highway 78 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. The plantation is a classic example of a large French Colonial plantation house in the United States. Its construction date is disputed.
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.