Near St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Audubon Memorial
Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, November 26, 2024
1. Audubon Memorial
Erected 1964 by Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry.
Topics. This historical marker and memorial is listed in these topic lists: Animals • Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Parks & Recreational Areas. A significant historical year for this entry is 1799.
Location. 30° 47.027′ N, 91° 20.608′ W. Marker is near St. Francisville, Louisiana, in West Feliciana Parish. It is on State Highway 965 0.3 miles north of U.S. 61. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Saint Francisville LA 70775, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker and memorial is in the Florida Parishes and in Greater Baton Rouge. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Rosedown Plantation (approx. 1.8 miles away); Goldman House (approx. 2 miles away); Lt. Commander John E. Hart (approx. 2 miles away); Rosenthal House - Cedar/Oak (approx. 2.1 miles away); Evergreenzine (approx. 2.1 miles away); Trinity (approx. 2.1 miles away); The Baier House (approx. 2.2 miles away); Brasseaux House (approx. 2.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in St. Francisville.
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Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, November 26, 2024
2. Audubon Memorial
Photographed by Cajun Scrambler, July 8, 2005
3. Oakley Plantation
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, February 16, 2015
4. John James Audubon
This 1822-23 self-portrait of John James Audubon hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
“Naturalist John James Audubon painted this self-portrait when he was thirty-seven. Until that time, his drawings of birds had been a hobby while he worked as an import merchant and later as a mill operator in Kentucky. As the idea for a publication called The Birds of America took form, he traveled to Louisiana and began to create large watercolors of birds in their natural settings. In Natchez in 1822 an itinerant portrait painter named John Steen gave Audubon some lessons in oil painting and this self-portrait was a result. The precision of the features is similar to the portrait drawings Audubon had made in Louisville a few years earlier. Audubon went to England in 1826; the first engravings for The Birds of America were created that year. The full set of "elephant folio" volumes was completed in 1838. ” — National Portrait Gallery
“Naturalist John James Audubon painted this self-portrait when he was thirty-seven. Until that time, his drawings of birds had been a hobby while he worked as an import merchant and later as a mill operator in Kentucky. As the idea for a publication called The Birds of America took form, he traveled to Louisiana and began to create large watercolors of birds in their natural settings. In Natchez in 1822 an itinerant portrait painter named John Steen gave Audubon some lessons in oil painting and this self-portrait was a result. The precision of the features is similar to the portrait drawings Audubon had made in Louisville a few years earlier. Audubon went to England in 1826; the first engravings for The Birds of America were created that year. The full set of "elephant folio" volumes was completed in 1838. ” — National Portrait Gallery
Photographed by David Seibert, circa 1968
5. Oakley Plantation House
Credits. This page was last revised on November 26, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 16, 2015. This page has been viewed 630 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on November 26, 2024, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana. 3. submitted on July 16, 2015. 4. submitted on September 12, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 5. submitted on September 9, 2017, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
