Melrose Plantation, Yucca House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

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TITLE:
Melrose Plantation, Yucca House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS LA,35-MELRO,1C-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 8 (24 x 36 in.)

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS LA-2-69-C

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N187).

Building/structure dates: 1780 initial construction

See HABS No. LA-2-69-A for photographs of the same.

0.1995

Significance: Yucca Plantation, now known as Melrose, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by a remarkable family of freed slaves, and contains what is certainly one of the most significant collections of buildings of African-American origin to be found in the United States. Of the nine buildings presently on the property, five of these, Yucca House, the African House, Ghana House, the Big House and the Barn, date from the period of African-American ownership. Yucca House was the original plantation owners' house before the Big House was built in 1847. Ghana House was moved onto the ground in the 1930's, but is contemporary with the others.

SUBJECTS:
LOUISIANA--Natchitoches Parish--Melrose

OTHER TITLE:
Slave Hospital

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.la0363

CONTROL #:
LA0363

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