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| | | Louisiana plantation ruins < on 3/6/2017 6:05 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Howdy, y'all. This is my first real post on here, so please bear with me as I will inevitably screw something up. I'm guessing some of y'all have come across this place, but I thought I'd add what I have. In some of my reading on Louisiana history, I came across of accounts of what was considered the grandest plantation in antebellum times. Unfortunately, the main house burned down in the early 1920s, but there were apparently ruins of different things on the property still. Some online research and Google Earth led me to where I believed the ruins were. Not sure if it's kosher to mention the name and location of the place, but I can add that if it is. Apologies in advance for the poor quality of the pictures. I'm a dummy and only brought my cell phone. The POE was relatively easy to find, and I soon came across some of the artificial canals I'd read about, with brickwork randomly scattered about. I followed the canal to where I came across a footbridge and some rock structure. I've read there was a miniature fort with a working cannon, and my guess is that this is what the structure that's currently about 7' is. I then came across another footbridge spanning a canal. Brickwork was scattered throughout the property, and I round the remains of some outbuildings. There is some iron still attached to this chunk of bricks, possibly the frame of a door? In my research, I'd learned of a hill that had been constructed. On the top of the hill, there was a Chinese pagoda adorned with stained glass. In the base of the hill, there was a grotto that the plantation owner converted to a chapel for daily prayers after his wife and children passed. I saw a hill covered in trees, and knew I was in business because there just aren't hills in southern Louisiana. Unfortunately, the pagoda is long gone, but the grotto remains in surprisingly good shape. The initial opening was maybe 5' high, and it opened to the internal chamber above to what I'm guessing is about a 12' domed roof. I would have spent longer in there getting actual measurements, but made a fairly hasty retreat when about a dozen healthy-sized rats came pouring out of the walls. It shows up better on my phone, but you can see the nasty little buggers in some of the photos. All in all, it was a good 40 minutes spent checking out the remnants of an old place.
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| Dee Ashley
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| | | | Re: Louisiana plantation ruins < Reply # 10 on 3/13/2017 12:21 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by rosindia
I love wintertime and fall exploring. I moved to Texas recently, and discovered the joy of wasps and rattlesnakes in abandoned places. If there was only some kind of force field or repellant that one could spray on to keep them away
| Water Moccasins and Copperhead snakes are my absolute favorites - especially water moccasins when they get a wild hair up their ass and suddenly decide to literally chase you. Good times! Oh, and don't forget the fire ants! And the giant tree roaches/water bugs *shudder* ... And poison Ivy/Oak (but those can get ya any time of year I suppose, they just cover more ground in the summer). Gotta love summer in Texas. I could go on, but I believe my point has been made and then some, lol. I'm in a - shall we say - ... silly mood currently, so anything I say or insinuate is probably laced with a touch of a Kendall Jackson-esque quirkiness, lol. On that note... It's probably time for me to retire from the world of social media and forums for a couple hours... Edit: Redundancies. It must be the aforementioned beverage that has adversely affected my grammar.... Fuck, I thought I was old enough to know better than to drink and post. Someday I might learn, but not today!
[last edit 3/13/2017 12:27 AM by Dee Ashley - edited 1 times]
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