This monument records the names of 107,000 people held in bondage in Louisiana from 1719-1820. The records were gathered from the database Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, created by noted historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. We have named . . . — — Map (db m117304) HM
This raised French Creole style cottage was built of masonry and cypress in the late 18th century. It is one of the earliest and best preserved Creole plantation houses standing on River Road. From its beginnings as a smaller, six room house, it . . . — — Map (db m297800) HM
As Madame Beauregard lay dying in New Orleans, she yearned to see her husband once more, but his duties in the Confederate Army made his return impossible. She knew her husband could not be spared as a soldier of the South, and she resigned herself . . . — — Map (db m85143) HM
This jail was donated to the Whitney Plantation by Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hebert of Gonzalez, Louisiana. It was built in Pennsylvania in 1868 and was found almost buried in clay. The flat steel bars on the doors are typical of the bars that appeared on . . . — — Map (db m297968) HM
The kitchen was built by the early 1800s and is the oldest detached kitchen in Louisiana. The building has been restored, and the hearth was rebuilt in 2001. Pigeon holes are cut in either end of the gabled roof so that this loft could be used as . . . — — Map (db m297901) HM
Robin was an enslaved man who was the blacksmith and a domestic on the plantation, serving three generations of the Haydel family. He was born around 1791 on the east coast of the United States. All of the metal work on the plantation would have . . . — — Map (db m297799) HM
From which civil parish was named. First church on second German Coast when Louisiana was a colony of Spain. Served west and east banks of river until 1864. Old cemetery contains wife of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard and John Slidell family tomb. — — Map (db m85324) HM
On February 21, 1770 property was set aside by Spanish authority for a church on the second German Coast. When Father Bernardo de Limpach arrived in 1772, Acadians had also settled in the area. The new church took the name of the original Chapel . . . — — Map (db m87943) HM
Before the Civil War, the Whitney Plantation counted 22 slave cabins on its site. They were made of cypress and were located along River Road, downriver from the Big House.
Most of the original cabins were torn down in the 1970s to enlarge the . . . — — Map (db m117313) HM
