Английская Википедия:Allendale Plantation
Allendale Plantation, also known as the Allendale Plantation Historic District, is a historic site and complex of buildings that was once a former sugar plantation founded Шаблон:Circa and worked by enslaved African Americans (prior to the end of the American Civil War). It is located in Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.[1]
The site has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 1, 1996, it is noted for its agricultural significance as an example of a reconstruction era sugar plantation system in southern Louisiana.[2]
History
In February 1852, Henry Watkins Allen and William Nolan purchased the Westover Plantation.[2][3] Henry Watkins Allen had served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, as well as serving as the 17th Governor of Louisiana.[4][5] Three years later in 1855, the land was divided and split; with Nolan keeping the name Westover Plantation on his portion of land and Allen using the name Allendale for his portion of the property.[2]
Henry Watkins Allen (1855–1865)
The Allendale Plantation under Henry Watkins Allen grew to Шаблон:Convert, with Шаблон:Convert farmed.[6] Allen owned 125 enslaved African Americans.[7][8] Allen built his own railroad, which had been headquartered in what is now the town of Port Allen.[7]
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), parts of the Allendale Plantation had burned, including the Allendale Mill.[9][10] Allen had moved to Mexico art the war in 1865, and a year later he died on April 22, 1866, in Mexico City,[11] and as a result the Allendale Plantation held many owners after his death.[2]
Kahao family (starting in 1882)
In 1882, the plantation was purchased by brothers John Kahao and Martin James Kahao, formerly from Kansas.[2] The Kahao family bought up smaller neighboring plots of land, in order to grow the total land size.[2] The Allendale Plantation records showed that after 1908, many of the laborers were still being paid in tokens and merchandise checks instead of cash, which went against Federal law changes.[12] The Kahao family operated it as a sugar mill into the 1930s.[2]
Architecture
The Allendale Plantation Historic District is the name used by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and it includes 15 wood-framed structures that were once part of the Allendale Plantation.[2] Some 13 of the 15 structures were former residences on the property, as well as a church and an office building.[2] The plantation manor house and the sugar mill have long since been destroyed.[2] In January 1887, the nearby Westover Plantation's main residence had a fire and burned down by accident, when they were trying to use fire to clear nearby weeds.[13][14]
Multiple cabins built between 1870 and 1900 are found on the site, they were once used by sharecropping laborers.[2] The cabins were generally built as four-rooms that were occupied by a single family.[2] The West Baton Rouge Museum has had one of the Allendale Plantation slave cabins onsite since 1976 (once owned by Allen, pre-1865) and the museum offers a narrative history.[15][8] In 2016 and 2020, the West Baton Rouge Museum narrative tour featuring Allendale Plantation been criticized for being biased and narrow in scope.[15][8]
The Allendale Church was built for laborers, and the office on the property held all of the related operations paperwork.[2] Most of the plantation buildings were moved often, due to flooding of the area.[2]
As of 1996, there were only six remaining examples of the sugar plantation complexes and systems in southern Louisiana.[2]
See also
- List of plantations in Louisiana
- Plantation complexes in the Southern United States
- Statue of Henry Watkins Allen
- National Register of Historic Places listings in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
References
Further reading
- Шаблон:Cite book - The A Confederate Girl's Diary (1913) book has accounts of seeing the explosion of the CSS Arkansas from the Westover Plantation, during the America Civil War.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,00 2,01 2,02 2,03 2,04 2,05 2,06 2,07 2,08 2,09 2,10 2,11 2,12 2,13 2,14 Шаблон:Cite web (with Шаблон:NRHP url)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 8,2 Шаблон:Cite web
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