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Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Louisiana, contains two very interesting plantations,
Oakland and
Magnolia complete with "quarters" above, and as a unit of the National Park Service does the usual good job interpreting all facets of the properties; nearby between them along the Cane River Road is another famous plantation,
Melrose.
Part I - Oakland Plantation I have mentioned the very interesting Cane River Creole National Historical Park here before and have decided it's time to create a thread about it. This small National Park consists of one complete Louisiana Creole plantation and part of another, separated by...
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While visiting the Washington, D. C., area last August, I stumbled across this lovely restoration in the suburb of Laurel, Maryland. Montpelier was originally built by Quaker Major Thomas Snowden near the close of the Eighteenth Century from 1781 - 1785. It was the centerpiece of a vast...
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Montpelier below in Maryland is an altogether different type plantation, originally growing tobacco instead of cotton or sugar cane like those in Louisiana. Unfortunately, located as it is in a tony suburb of D. C., only the Big House and the land immediately surrounding it survives.
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