Magnolia Mound
eBook - ePub

Magnolia Mound

A Louisiana River Plantation

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Magnolia Mound

A Louisiana River Plantation

About this book

The story behind the eighteenth-century French Creole cottage now on the National Register of Historic Places, with illustrations included. Magnolia Mound, situated on a ridge overlooking the meandering Mississippi River, stands as Baton Rouge's most notable eighteenth-century structure. This volume, researched and written under the direction of the Magnolia Mound Board of Trustees, traces the origin and development of this splendid Creole raised cottage, providing an intimate look at plantation life and the economic system that supported it. Beginning with the original land grant of 1786, the authors document both the social and the architectural history of the celebrated structure—from its origin as a modest settler's house and farm to its later grandeur as a distinctive home situated within an extensive working plantation. The book also includes an account of the successful struggle by the Foundation for Historical Louisiana—which keeps the building and grounds open to the public—to save the house from destruction in 1960. Winner, Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History

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Yes, you can access Magnolia Mound by Lois Elmers Bannon, Martha Yancey Carr, Gwen Anders Edwards in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. PART I
  7. CHAPTER I: Prelude
  8. CHAPTER II: The Beginning Of A River Plantation
  9. CHAPTER III: The Plantation Gentry: The Duplantier Years
  10. CHAPTER IV: The Enigma of a Prince
  11. PART II
  12. CHAPTER V: Antebellum Plantation Life
  13. CHAPTER VI: Civil War and Reconstruction
  14. CHAPTER VII: The Developers
  15. PART III
  16. CHAPTER VIII: The Rescue
  17. CHAPTER IX: The Restoration
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index