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Melrose Plantation, Ghana House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
LocationState Highway 119,
Melrose, LA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS LA-2-69-F
0.2006
Significance: Yucca Plantation, known since 1885 as Melrose Plantation, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by a remarkable family of freed slaves, and contains what is certainly the largest and most significant collection of buildings of Franco-African origin built by blacks, for use by blacks, in the United States. The Ghana House is a small one-room cabin of piece-sur-piece construction (log on log) with full dovetail joints at the corners. The structure doesn't have a ceiling; the space is open to the underside of the wood shake roofing.
Subjects
OutbuildingsAgricultureAfrican Americans
Related Names
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
Johnson, Jerame P., Delineator
Penny, Yuliya B., Delineator
Young, Stephen M., Delineator
Zeringue, Amy E., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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