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Our history begins with a muddy river called the Mississippi and dense swamplands. Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de Salle traveled the beginning of the river to its end. He claimed the territory for France anticipating it to be a source of great wealth for the country.
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 .
8 sty 2016 · Two hundred and five years ago, on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history.
On January 3, 1787, de Logny contracted with the free mulatto Charles to build his house on this property, now known as Destrehan Plantation. The plantation is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is the oldest documented plantation house left intact in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
Established in 1787 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Destrehan Plantation remains the oldest documented plantation home in the lower Mississippi Valley.
Early records from St. Charles parish show enslaved Africans living and working in very small groups. Africans built their own shelter. Their houses had dirt floors and were arranged into groups called camps. The relationship between the enslaved and those who owned them seemed to vary greatly.
22 mar 2023 · Destrehan Plantation, probably because of its size and extensive structural improvements, was assigned to the control of the Freedmen's Bureau for use as a colony for refugee Freedmen. Known as the Rost Home Colony, the plantation had an average population of 700 individuals at any given time.
