Canebrake_(Ferriday,_Louisiana)

Canebrake (Ferriday, Louisiana)

Canebrake (Ferriday, Louisiana)

Historic house in Louisiana, United States

Canebrake is a historic plantation house in Ferriday, Louisiana. The house was located inside a 531 acres (215 ha) cotton plantation as part of forced-labor operation. The site is west of Mississippi River and east of Lake St. John. [2][3]

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The house was built in c.1840 and has been remodeled in 1850-1860 and in 1910, after the plantation was purchased by Arthur Meserve.[4][2][3]

The house and the nearby 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) area, comprising several outbuildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1982.[1]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Canebrake" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 1982. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018. with three photos and two maps Archived 2018-04-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Mary Warren Miller (October 15, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form: Canebrake". National Park Service. Retrieved April 27, 2018. With six photos from 1980.
  4. [4]
    "Canebrake". National Park Service. Retrieved July 18, 2016.


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