Plantations in Louisiana: Albania Plantation House, Arlington Plantation House (Franklin, Louisiana), Avondale Plantation Home, Bayside (Jeanerette, L

Plantations in Louisiana: Albania Plantation House, Arlington Plantation House (Franklin, Louisiana), Avondale Plantation Home, Bayside (Jeanerette, L
ISBN-10
1230536639
ISBN-13
9781230536637
Pages
34
Language
English
Published
2013-09
Publisher
University-Press.org
Author
Source Wikipedia

Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Albania Plantation House, Arlington Plantation House (Franklin, Louisiana), Avondale Plantation Home, Bayside (Jeanerette, Louisiana), Belle Alliance Plantation, Belle Grove (Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana), Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana), Butler Greenwood Plantation, Cancienne, Louisiana, Clarendon Plantation House, Destrehan Plantation, Disharoon's plantation, Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana), Homeplace Plantation House, Kent Plantation House, Laura Plantation, List of plantations in Louisiana, Loyd Hall Plantation, Madewood Plantation House, Magnolia Mound Plantation House, Magnolia Plantation (Derry, Louisiana), Melrose Plantation, Myrtles Plantation, Nottoway Plantation, Oakland Plantation (Natchitoches, Louisiana), Oak Alley Plantation, Parlange Plantation House, Pitot House, Rosedown Plantation, San Francisco Plantation House, Shadows-on-the-Teche, Solitude Plantation House, St. Joseph Plantation, The Houmas, Uncle Sam Plantation, White Hall Plantation House, Winter Quarters State Historic Site, Woodland Plantation (West Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana). Excerpt: This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. Upland or green seeded cotton was not a commercially important crop until the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. With an inexpensive cotton gin a man could remove seed from as much cotton in one day as a woman could de-seed in two months working at a rate of about one pound per day. The newly mechanized cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution absorbed the tremendous...

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