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Item Title
Melrose Plantation, 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
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-31).
Building/structure dates:
1780 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1820 subsequent work
Significance: The plantation is important for its association with early Black American history. It was established by a well-to-do black woman named Marie Therese Coin-Coin. She was a slave for most of her life, and was a free woman for the last twenty-five years of the 18th century. She was at one time married to her slave master, Pierre Thomas Metoyer; they had nine children. She later became a wealthy businesswoman and slaveholder. The house was built by Louis Metoyer, Marie Therese's grandson.
Related Names
Therese, Marie
Metoyer, Claude Thomas
Henry, John
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer February 28, 1940 VIEW FROM THE SOUTHEAST
2. Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer February 28, 1940 REAR ELEVATION (NORTH)
3. Historic American Buildings Survey Lester Jones, Photographer February 28, 1940 SOUTH ELEVATION (FRONT)
4. GENERAL VIEW OF PLANTATION HOUSE
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