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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...