Winter Quarters State Historic Site

Winter Quarters
Front of Winter Quarters
Winter Quarters State Historic Site is located in Louisiana
Winter Quarters State Historic Site
Winter Quarters State Historic Site is located in the United States
Winter Quarters State Historic Site
Nearest cityNewellton, Louisiana
Coordinates32°0′46.368″N 91°10′33.96″W / 32.01288000°N 91.1761000°W / 32.01288000; -91.1761000
Area7 acres (2.8 ha) [2]
Built1803
NRHP reference No.78001437[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 21, 1978

Winter Quarters in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States, is a surviving example of an antebellum cotton plantation. It is located south of Newellton on Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake, or former bend in the Mississippi River.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Wertz, Jay (1997). Smithsonian's great battles and battlefields of the Civil War. William Morrow & Co. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-688-17024-0.