While the British system of metes and bounds, or the public land survey system of 640-acre squares, were used in most other states, Louisiana was partly surveyed using the French arpent system, resulting in long, narrow (and sometimes pie-shaped) parcels of land oriented perpendicular to navigable waterways. But lately, Chloe was eavesdropping to find out about what was going to be happening to her. Cultural Resources Investigations in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The plantation began in the early 1800s and still today produces cotton for the garment industry. $37.22 - $101.80 5 Used from $37.22 1 New from $101.80. Mississippi was a paddle frigate that sunk in the waters of the Mississippi River on the Northwest tip of Profit Island which is about 12 miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Three small cribs constituted the upper dam. With all that wealth he acquired by smuggling and capturing merchants vessels Lafitte was nervous that he would be caught by the authorities and subsequently had to bury his treasure to keep it safe. Kelley, David B. and George J. Castille. 1List of plantations 2Historical background of the plantation era 3Slave housing 4See also 5References Toggle the table of contents Toggle the table of contents List of plantations in Louisiana Add languages Add links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebarhide Actions Read Edit View history General Visible Anyone can find this group. A man named Evans was said to have buried his life savings in the 1900s in two half gallon jars. and fortunes were hard to come by and easily lost. The trees were shorn of limbs and oriented with their tops downstream. Plantation heiress and manager Laura Lacoul Gore's (1861-1963) autobiography tells the family's history and her experience living at the plantation. The infamous Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is widely considered one of the most haunted places in America. Edited by Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated July 2020. Whitney is one of the oldest and best-preserved plantations on River Road. Truth be told Lafitte operated all over the Gulf Coast so his treasures could be scattered anywhere in that area. Artifacts found at the site include aboriginal pottery, French ceramics, gunflints, glass beads, and bottle fragments, as well as a coin minted in 1722 in La Rochelle, France. 13 The Lost Cause fantasies on offer at plantation sites are obviously a minor element in these massive issues. Examples of slave housing can be found on many of the extant plantation complexes. Pearson, Charles E. and Thomas C.C. Lincecum was once a bustling lumber town. This spot was used during the Civil War as you guessed a popular camping area for southern refugees and Confederate soldiers. The family never returned to Houmas House, and those back in Louisiana who knew her and her love of the plantation mourned their loss. The surrounding wooded areas provided game for food and furs, wood for fuel and lumber, raw materials . As a result, standing structures belonging to an archaeological site are sometimes removed from their associated subsurface remains. In 2016, my obsession with the forgotten and abandoned inspired me to create this blog. These sources also have a limited scope, as few people recorded the humdrum of everyday life or what was then considered to be common knowledge. Many souls were lost on the Oregon that sank on the southern tip of Island #82. To get a first-hand look at the estates of Louisianas colonial and antebellum past, visitors only need to take a tour down River Road. Historical archaeologists in Louisiana divide the past five hundred years into four major time periods, based on political and social changes as well as changes in material culture: Historic Exploration (15411803), Antebellum (18031860), Civil War and Aftermath (18601890), and Industrial and Modern (1890Present). Plaisance (16IV165) and Arcadia (16IV171) Plantation Sugarhouses Phase III Archaeological Investigations, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. It originally was an indigo plantation and later changed to cotton and sugarcane. Fort, mission, concession, and small farm sites are characteristic of the latter portion of this time period. [citation needed], Under ownership of Spain, the city of New Orleans held the strategically important location between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. The location of the shot indicated where and how the gun was mounted, and an embossed copper alloy plate that the engine was likely manufactured in Britain. St. Francisville, LA Myrtle Plantation. Laura Plantationonce produced a signature Louisiana crop, sugarcane. Linguist Oliver Mayeux, the son of a Louisiana Creole, is a devoted supporter of Kouri-Vini's resurgence. The Great Mississippi River Road is about 70 miles in length, located on each side of the river between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and is home to a collection of Louisiana's towering antebellum homes nestled in . She was laid to rest in the family . If you plan on visiting Isle Demiere you can only get there by way of boat. This ghost town lies 21 miles south of Marrero, Louisiana. This would create an arsenic-like liquid she planned to pour in the batter for a birthday cake she was making for one of the children. Until the development of the steamboat, transportation of goods on major rivers was generally accomplished either with barges or flatboats, floated downstream or pushed upstream with poles or by hand using overhanging tree limbs. While some main houses remain standing, very few of the other plantation structures do. New Orleans: US Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 2007. The beautiful oak trees that line the alley leading up to this home are nothing short of incredible. The home was burned in the war, but the fortune never recovered. Louisiana was named after Frances King at the time Louis XIV. Another story states that Lafitte buried $1 million in treasure in a town now called Lafitte Villiage. An archaeological survey of the seafloor in Federal waters off Terrebonne Parish, prior to construction of a natural gas pipeline, located the only known German U-boat sunk in the Gulf, U-166, as well as her last victim, the Robert E. Lee, a steam passenger ship. Byways & Historic Trails Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, Easy Travel Organization Tips You Will Love, Bidwell-Bartleson Party Blazing the California Trail. Near New Roads Louisiana in Pointe Coupee Parish. For the offence of eavesdropping, one of her ears was cut off. 1 (2012): 5-23. In the early 1940s, Louisiana State University personnel, using Work Projects Administration (formerly Works Progress Administration) labor, excavated at the Bayou Goula site, near the town of the same name, in Iberville Parish. Photo by Kathy Alexander, 2012. The surviving plantation homes range from relatively modest dwellings to opulent mansions, some containing original furnishings and many with period furniture. These coins are presumed to be washing ashore from the numerous shipwrecks in the area. We do this by listing sites in our directory and spotlighting these resources on our social media channels. Many guests of the home claim to have seen ghosts and heard sounds, such as footsteps. Hahn, III, and Donald G. Hunter. Historically housing for enslaved people on Louisiana plantations (prior to the reconstruction era), featured cabins consisting of two rooms, with one family in each room. However, the archaeological remains of others have been identified on Nina Plantation in Pointe Coupe Parish, Westwood Plantation in Catahoula Parish, Helvetia Plantation in St. James Parish, and elsewhere. Baileys Dam. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these. The main house was built circa 1791 and was enlarged and renovated in 1802-1805. Legend has it that Jean Lafitte buried a large cache of gold near the Amite River which is across from the ruins of Galvez town. Some worked in the fields and others were house servants. Supposedly the treasure is about 3 miles east of the Old Spanish Trail. Subsidence and sea-level rise have also submerged many coastal sites, a process exacerbated by coastal erosion. North of Cheniere Ridge, Louisiana near a shell bank on Lake Misere, Gold and silver coins that date from 1802 to 1809, $100,000 to $500,000 worth of gold and silver coins and jewelry. View a permanent exhibit dedicated to telling the story of the enslaved population specific to Laura Plantation. Rosedown Plantation is an 8,000 square feet historic home and former plantation. You'll receive your first newsletter soon! This unique plantation gives visitors the opportunity to experience what picking cotton in the fields was actually like. The treasure has never been recovered and is probably still there sunk deep in the swampy bayou near the ruins of his plantation. Railroads and sawmill towns are characteristic of the early part of this time period. Aboriginal pottery, some of which imitate European forms, and animal bone constitute most of the artifact assemblage from this site. Use the search radius to expand the geocoded search areait may be too tight. Cheaper and easier to produce than sugar, rice grew in importance, with cultivation eventually shifting from the Mississippi River to the southwest Louisiana prairies. The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. Kezia Kamenetz is a native to southern Louisiana and lives in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans currently. In antebellum Louisiana the average sugar plantation had a value of $200,000, whereas even the largest cotton plantations were worth only half that. If you have a genealogy-related site youd like people to find, please contact alyson@ongenealogy.com and well list your business in our directory. So if you are from Louisiana or are interested in lost treasure stories then you will want to read on as I present 23 Lost Treasures of Louisiana. History Although the Hernando de Soto expedition passed through northwest Louisiana in the 1500s, it left little behind but disease. She gathered some leaves from an Oleander plant and boiled them in water. [16] After the American Civil War in 1865, the United States of America had abolished slavery, and the architecture changed for laborers on plantations to include more space, one example of this is found at the Allendale Plantation in Port Allen.[16]. Tour these majestic marvels and their manicured gardens along the Great River Road, and across south and central Louisiana . So either the remaining one is still buried there or the Union troops had taken it when they were camping near the Parlange Plantation garden. Some years down the road, one of David Bradfords law students and family friend, Clark Woodruff married Bradfords 14-year-old daughter, Sarah Matilda. Things like, if there were new slaves being brought onto the property, or which slaves were to be sold or traded to another owner. While prehistoric archaeologists have only archaeological artifacts, objects made and used by people, to examine, historical archaeologists use both historical records (documents, photographs, letters, newspapers, etc.) Many slaves were skilled blacksmiths, masons, and carpenters who were often contracted out. At the 18511880 Arcadia Sugarhouse, adjacent to Plaisance, brick foundations indicated that this building initially contained a grinding room, boiling room, and cooling room. Magnolia Moundgives a glimpse into the lifestyle of the early French Creoles. All these structures survived until the mid-twentieth century, by which time Angola and six adjacent plantations had become part of todays Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Side-scan sonar was used to determine that part of one of the cribs in the upper dam remained intact. The sugarcane fields outside of Baton Rouge are home to over a dozen forgotten cemeteries. In 1808, after Bradfords death, Clark and Sarah moved their family into the Myrtles home. After the Civil War, as many as 20,000 freedmen worked over 170,000 acres across Louisiana. Knowing that Jean Lafitte lived here there may be more treasures buried on this 3,000-acre property than just the one Hippolyte buried here. This plantation is one of the largest plantations in the United States built by and for free people of color. Lost Plantations of the South By Marc R. Matrana Hardcover : 9781578069422, 336 pages, August 2009 Hardcover $40.00 Request Desk or Examination Copy Request a Media Review Copy Ebook available An illustrated history of the grand southern plantation homes lost to war, disaster, neglect, and progress Description In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home.From plantations that were . 2. House destroyed by fire in 1963. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1995. Greek Revival home completed in 1833 by Simeon Smith. Practicing archaeology, historic or prehistoric, in Louisiana is challenging given the states geology. So if you are ever on one of these islands bring along a sand scoop and metal detector and you might come away a happy treasure seeker! Louisiana (New Spain) was transferred by Spain to France in 1800, but it remained under Spanish administration until a few months before the Louisiana Purchase. Then, as revenge for the two little girls, an angry mob of both black and white men and women took her and hung her from a tree on the location grounds. Open to the public. Then, have a meal at the onsite restaurant before heading off to the next stop on your trip. After the war, many planters, having lost access to enslaved labor and the capital their ownership represented, lost their land. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Baton Rouge: Coastal Environments, Inc., 2011. Now Chloe, who had such close-knit intermingling with the Woodruffs, had the opportunity to overhear certain goings on around the homestead. But she could only find two of the three wooden chests. It was the plantation of James Bowie, who served in the Battle of the Alamo. I hope to preserve the past through documentation and photographs since many of these amazing places are often lost to neglect, demolition, or renovation. Found at the former location of the Angola Plantation main house, built between 1841 and 1846 in West Feliciana Parish, were two brick chimney foundations, several brick piers, a brick stair landing, brick flooring, and brick borders and walkways. Love Louisiana? 83000554. Below ground, the seven sugarhouse sites that have been extensively excavated contained hundreds of intact features. Today, these homes are available for tours, exploration and special events This mix of history, remembrance and celebrations make visits to Louisianas unique plantation homesa very fascinating way to spend an afternoon. Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana's Enslaved People By Alexandra Eaton, Christoph Koettl, Quincy G. Ledbetter, Victoria Simpson and Aaron Byrd June 27, 2021 There are thousands of. French wine bottles and cosmetic, or ointment, jars, called rouge pots, are commonly found, as are Spanish olive jars and silver coins. None of which has been recovered. Taensas avoyel-taensa.org The Taensa, indigenous people to Louisiana, supposedly buried their treasures when the Spanish invaded.