Architecture
Afton Villa Plantation and Gardens
Only the gardens and fragments of foundations survive from the fire that destroyed the Afton Villa plantation house in 1963.
plantation
plantation Index
Architecture
Ardoyne Plantation
Ardoyne is the most elaborate and romantic-looking Gothic Revival residence surviving in Louisiana.
Architecture
Houmas House Plantation
Houmas House Plantation in Darrow is an excellent example of the peripteral type of Greek Revival architecture in which the main structure is surrounded by grand columns, each with an uninterrupted span from ground level to the roofline.
Architecture
Live Oaks Plantation
The plantation chapel at Live Oaks, built for the enslaved workers in 1840, is the last to survive in Louisiana.
Architecture
Promised Land Plantation
Leander Perez purchased Promised Land in 1925 and occupied the plantation house until the early 1960s.
Architecture
Shadows-on-the-Teche Plantation
Until artist Weeks Hall donated Shadows-on-the-Teche to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1958, the New Iberia property had been in the Weeks family since the original Spanish land grant in 1792.
History
Sharecropping
Sharecropping was a labor that came out of the Civil War and lasted until the 1950s.
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