Historian Katy Shannon explained, “ Laura Plantation, which has existed since 1805. It existed as a sugar cane plantation; sugar cane is still grown here today. It was founded by a French Naval ...
In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on ...
WHITE CASTLE, La. (Louisiana First) — Flames ripped through the Nottoway Plantation House Thursday evening, destroying the largest standing antebellum mansion in the United States. The 160-year-old ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
In the 1700s and 1800s, Brunswick County was home to many plantations where Africans were enslaved and forced to farm and ...
HEAR ABOUT HIS SERVICE: Howard Melville Hanna, of Pebble Hill Plantation. Hanna served as an officer in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. (Submitted ...