Evergreen Plantation
by Susan Rissi Tregoning
Title
Evergreen Plantation
Artist
Susan Rissi Tregoning
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Photograph - Photography
Description
In 1792, Pierre C. Becnel, a grandson of some of the first German immigrants in the area, built a small cottage near Edgard that would one day be known as Evergreen Plantation. It was renovated to it’s current Greek Revival style in 1832.
The plantation grew sugarcane. It was an operating plantation up until about 1930, when the Depression brought about the abandonment of the house. However, it continued to produce sugar cane under the direction of the bank that owned it, and is still a working sugar cane plantation today. It was extensively restored during the 1940s, with 300,000 bricks from the demolished Uncle Sam Plantation used in the restoration.
There are 37 contributing buildings, all but eight of them antebellum, making it one of the most complete plantation complexes in the state and the South. Of great significance are the 22 slave quarters, arranged in a double row along an allée of oak trees. It is the most complete intact collection of slave cabins in the nation.
Because of its quality and significance, the plantation is included among the first 26 featured sites on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1992 for its rich architectural legacy.
Evergreen Plantation located on River Road near Wallace, Louisiana.
Copyright 2018 Susan Rissi Tregoning
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November 8th, 2018
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