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Melrose Plantation, Yucca 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-C
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N187).
Building/structure dates:
1780 initial construction
See HABS No. LA-2-69-A for photographs of the same.
0.1995
Significance: Yucca Plantation, now known as Melrose, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by a remarkable family of freed slaves, and contains what is certainly one of the most significant collections of buildings of African-American origin to be found in the United States. Of the nine buildings presently on the property, five of these, Yucca House, the African House, Ghana House, the Big House and the Barn, date from the period of African-American ownership. Yucca House was the original plantation owners' house before the Big House was built in 1847. Ghana House was moved onto the ground in the 1930's, but is contemporary with the others.
Related Names
Therese, Marie
Metoyer, Claude Thomas Pierre.
Henry, John
Bisson, Richard, Delineator
Cronin, Chad, Delineator
Kelley, Regan, Delineator
Spanelli, James, Delineator
Verges, Judith, Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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