Evergreen Plantation | |
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| Nearest city | LA 18, Wallace, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 30°01′38″N 90°38′26″W / 30.02722°N 90.64056°W |
| Built | 1790, 1832 |
| Architect | John Carver |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 91001386 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | September 25, 1991[1] |
| Designated NHL | April 27, 1992[2] |
Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its current Greek Revival style in 1832. The plantation's historical commodity crop was sugarcane, cultivated by enslaved African Americans until emancipation.
The plantation operated until about 1930, when the Depression resulted in the owners abandoning the house. The plantation continued to produce sugar cane under the direction of the bank that owned it, and it is still a working sugar cane plantation today. The house was extensively restored during the 1940s, with 300,000 bricks from the demolished Uncle Sam Plantation used in the restoration.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Evergreen Plantation". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 8, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ Sternberg, Mary Ann (1996). Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-8071-2055-2.