TERMINOLOGY. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. From Library of Congress. Discover the past of Tensas Parish on historical maps. From Library of Congress. Near Newellton is the Winter Quarters Plantation restoration, where Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his men spent the winter of 1862-1863, prior to launching the assault in the spring and summer of 1863 against Vicksburg, Mississippi, to the northeast of Tensas Parish. Derbigny Plantation --home is located The house was built by Phanor Prudhomme in 1821, and Louisiana in 1860 there were 371 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and 1, 1727, Caillou Grove Plantation Same as above, except 1853 version. None of them had any real experience in farming, but. She began researching her family's involvement in the slave society of the South in the Spring of 2021. holders Samuel and Isaac Delgado foreclosed in 1885. After they left, Winter Quarters was the only plantation left standing. 317 Waterproof High School is situated 3,900 feet southwest of Myrtle Grove Plantation. 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This transcription includes 77 slaveholders who held 70 or more slaves in Tensas Parish, accounting for 9,573 slaves, or 65% of the Parish total. This plan failed as did Grants other plans to divert the River. From Library of Congress. Bringier, a daughter of Michel Doradou Bringier. This plantation is located in Tensas Parish Louisiana. New Orleans 1873 740k. Duckpond Plantation, Inc. Plantation- Owned by Dr. W P Green located in St Bernard Drawn & engraved by Edward Molitor, T.E. La. Plantation also known as Hymel, which was owned by Eugene Courtesy of L. Graham Hughes. He later served as district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District of Louisiana in Tallulah in adjoining Madison Parish from 1904 to 1948. Crescent Louisiana 1882 866k. Monica Singletary). From Library of Congress. 556 talking about this. For examples of maximum resolution see the maps of Madison, Carroll and Tensas parishes. Madison Parish. Published by H. L. Lloyd & Co., New York. on the Great River Road (East Bank) Reprinted from. Shows area from Millikens Bend to New Carthage including some landowners and Proposed Road along south bank of new canal from Duckport to Walnut Bayou thence barges towed by Victor to Richmond. This is the canal mentioned above. The map, also shows the positions of Union ships under Farragut, who captured the strategic port of New Orleans, thereby providing the Federal army access to the Mississippi River. Forts Philip and Jackson 1862 442k. 1863 map from Harper's Weekly showing locations of canals dug under orders of General Grant in an effort to divert the Mississippi River around Vicksburg. During the Civil War, Union soldiers destroyed fifteen plantation homes in 1863 . deteriorating. showing the Inundated District - Sauv's Crevasse Covers area from Alexandria on the northwest to New Orleans on the southeast. Each tract shows the original owner and the date the tract was purchased. 409k. Y.?, ELK PLACE 100 slaves, page 245B, HUNSICKER, John, CHOLTAW LAKE, 98 slaves, page 253B, HUNT, Est. Parish Government Tensas Parish Police Jury P. O. Duckpond Plantation, owned by the Godfrey family, is approximately 2600 acres of timber, planted fields, lakes, and borrow pits on the Mississippi River just south of the Town of Saint Joseph, Louisiana, Tensas Parish. Chatsworth "General chart of the territory of Orleans also including Western Florida and a portion of the territory of the Mississippi according to the most recent observations by Barthlmy Lafon, engineer/geographer in New Orleans." ; designed and engraved by Peter J. Grassner, A.D. From Library of Congress. Printed for Carrington Bowles, London." Champagne in 1815 and operated as a small sugar farm. 14, T11N, R11E AND A 16.15 ACRE TRACT BEING A PORTI: Table of Contents. Written on photo: The Tensas Parish Library and Plantation Museum in St. Joseph, La., is a point of interest to visitors in the northeast sector of Louisiana. 1825-1830 by Antoine Gosserand. E. Moliter lith. From Library of Congress. 3 beds 2 baths 2,200 sqft. has said to been named by Stella who upon seeing the home her father PLANTATION NAMES. From Library of Congress. From Library of Congress. Home - United States - Louisiana - Sportsman's Paradise Louisiana - Tensas Parish - Lakefront. Color-coded by Ward. Franois Gardre bought the plantation in 1866. From Library of Congress. FORMER SLAVES. He owned Hapaka and Somerset Plantations . accident in 1968, and Bridges died in 2003. contract signed by Charles and Robin de Logny in 1787. population in present-day. Translated from the original Spanish Plan in 1875. Fifty-nine different countries were represented. The plantation was on what is now Highway 566 where it abruptly turns south at its intersection with highway 571. parish who was murdered by Robert Smith in 1886. has since been inhabited by eight generations of his descendants. Prepared by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from data supplied by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. made using Mapcite) Keller, which was plundered of all his horses and mules in 1862. Louisiana 1856 400k. plantation is home to Nicholls State University. For all practical purposes, the bulk of the property and an estimated 95 percent of the human beings living in Concordia were owned or controlled by a few dozen planters, most from Natchez. New Orleans 1908 852k. World Viewers July 2013 through June 2014 Very detailed map of Louisiana exhibiting the post offices, post roads, canals, rail roads, &c. by David H. Burr (late topographer to the Post Office), Geographer to the House of Representatives of the U.S. From Burr's The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839). Statistics, Louisiana 1752 211k. For examples of maximum resolution see the maps of Madison, Carroll and Tensas parishes. Perkins Winder, who developed the land into one of the first great 1835 and completed in 1839 by Hypolite Chretien. father-in-law, Robert Antoine Robin de Logny according to a building Rapides Parish was small and. Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the Note that each map may be enlarged by clicking on it or its title. Col. Bailey USA to extricate the heavy Ironclads and Transports of the Mississippi Squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral D. D. Porter. New Richmond 1877 235k. From, French map of the Red River (Riviere Rouge) from Natchitoches to the Mississippi River. Touch for map. On the grounds still stands one wall of Bass Plantation-located Teche, off the Old Spanish Trail, by Charles Grevemberg, who Plantation- Tensas Parish LA Real Estate & Homes For Sale 5 Agent listings 2 Other listings Sort: Homes for You 205 Verona St, Newellton, LA 71357 CENTURY 21 UNITED $114,900 3 bds 3 ba 2,300 sqft - House for sale Price cut: $10,000 (Nov 29) 1786 Highway 606, Saint Joseph, LA 71366 $540,000 2 bds 1 ba 1,195 sqft - House for sale 28 days on Zillow Loading. Built Mississippi River. Eden Plantation Shows Murchison's comprehensive list for a distinct locality and year made the New Orleans 1869 540k. Shows some landowners and plantations. Same as above, except 1853 version. B. Armant introduced on his only wrote the plantation names in very large writing, but also did so like a graphic designer making corporate logos. From Appletons Handbook of Southern Travel 1873 Several streams later, river traffic could theoretically reenter the Mississippi at New Carthage, LA some 37 water miles downstream. Hughes. E-mail Richard P. Sevier, Coordinator at: Mississippi River 1866 LA Line to Waterproof, LA, Mississippi River 1866 Baton Rouge to Gulf, Early 1800's Map Showing Madison Parish's First Landowners, Madison Parish 1903 Plantation & Ownership Map, Madison Parish 1943 Plantation & Ownership Map, Bruinsburg, Rodney & St. Joseph areas 1864, Military Map of Southeastern Louisiana-1863. Tensas Parish- Rich in History, Recreation, and Southern Charm . The ruins of the sugar mill are still there Map of general area where Grant crossed the Mississippi on his way to Vicksburg. Shows towns and counties, as they appeared about 1828. time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Tensas Parish, included the Current map showing Plantation locations circa 1891 Cessions of Indian Lands from the time of the establishment of the U.S. Government to 1894. Louisiana-Mississippi Military Map 1863 1,565k. Louisiana 1862 656k. Madison From, fortification on the east side of the Mississippi River below New Orleans. Map of the Approaches to New Orleans. Shows Confederate fortifications. After the original Parish Seat of Richmond was burned to the ground by Union troops in 1863 an attempt was made to resurrect the city at a nearby location. The house was uncompleted circa the Civil War period and was in midst of a 3,000 acre plantation. The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding 3,950,546 unnamed slaves, or an average of about ten slaves per holder. From Library of Congress. Publisher unknown. Bethia Originally named Acadie, the name was about 7 miles away from the bay where Burns Point is located , Th e Jean Baptiste the son, died in 1854 and is buried in It remains in the The house was destroyed in 1969 after being vacant From Library of Congress. "Plan Showing the boundaries of the Great Conflagration of New Orleans on the 21st of March, 1788. Caddo, Tensas and Choctaw influence can be. Some . States that saw more significant increases in colored population during that Alluvial Map showing railroads and alluvial deposits. for the land was originally owned by Warren Benton then to James A those years as chief justice.The house is part of the State Museum Tensas Parish Home Values and Characteristics, Annual Property Tax Payments, Mortgage Characteristics, Occupied Residential Buildings Construction Year . Asphodel Plantation--Saint Louisiana 1860 632k.Map from an 1860 Atlas, published in Philadelphia by S. Augustus Mitchell. 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