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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: November 5, 2017
Caption: Hughes House Marker #2
Additional Description: Originally built in Rocky Mount, Louisiana. From 1840's - 1860's it was the office of the Stewman and Hughes Plantation.

Site of the declaration of independence of the Free State of Bossier, November 26, 1860, months before Louisiana seceded and the resulting War between the States.

From 1860's - 1880's private residence of Capt. William J. Hughes and family. During the 1910's office of Dr. John B. Hall, later coroner for Bossier Parish.

Home was preserved in 1960's by the Bossier Restoration Foundation, spearheaded by Dr. Webb H. Martin, Jr., until his death in 1978.

Donated to the Bossier Restoration Foundation in the 1970's by the Hughes and O'Kelley descendents. Moved to this site in 1995.
Submitted: November 8, 2017, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p403087
File Size: 5.528 Megabytes

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