The state of Louisiana provided over 24,000 soldiers of color to fight for the Union in the Civil War. That’s more than any ...
WHITE CASTLE, La. (Louisiana First) — Flames ripped through the Nottoway Plantation House Thursday evening, destroying the largest standing antebellum mansion in the United States. The 160-year-old ...
In 2014 the Whitney Plantation opened its doors to the public as the only plantation museum in Louisiana with a focus on ...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County is once again welcoming visitors for inside tours after 18 months of restoration. Historians said the project breathed new life ...
In the 1700s and 1800s, Brunswick County was home to many plantations where Africans were enslaved and forced to farm and ...
After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, video footage of the ...
HEAR ABOUT HIS SERVICE: Howard Melville Hanna, of Pebble Hill Plantation. Hanna served as an officer in the Union Navy during the Civil War. He purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. (Submitted ...