Oakland Plantation, Tenant House
Historic house in Louisiana, United States in Natchez, Louisiana. Added to the National Register in 1979, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
Oakland Plantation, originally known as the Jean Pierre Emmanuel Prud'homme Plantation, and also known as Bermuda, is a historic plantation in an unincorporated area of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Founded as a forced-labor farm worked by enslaved Black people for White owners, it is one of the nation's best and most intact examples of a French Creole cotton plantation complex. The Oakland Plantation is now owned by the National Park Service as part of the Cane River Creole National Historical Park.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 4386 LA HWY 494, Natchez vicinity, LA |
| County | Natchitoches County |
| Listed | Aug 29, 1979 |
| Reference number | 79001073 |
| Type of place | plantation |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
| Contributing resources | 20 buildings, 4 structures, 1 sites |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 4386 LA HWY 494, Natchez, LA |
| Coordinates | 31.66416, -93.00312 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Cane River Creole National Historical Park · 1 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Corral Ohv Camp 11 mi · Cane 14 mi · Lotus Ohv Camp 14 mi |
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Nearby in Natchitoches County
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Sources
Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 79001073. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.