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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24K4_single-pen-slave-cabin_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
This cabin from Welham Plantation is furnished in the fashion of a tenant farmer's or sharecropper's dwelling. Although the furnishings are simple and rustic, the post-bellum plantation worker was the least able to make, purchase, or barter for ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24K0_mound-place-pigeon-cote_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Pigeonniers were built to house pigeons, a valuable source of food and fertilizer. French colonists brought the tradition of the Pigeonnier from their native country, where it is considered a status symbol. In Louisiana, plantation owners placed t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24JF_schoolhouse_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Originally built as a slave cabin, this building was later converted into the kitchen for th Overseer's House. Its use as a schoolhouse began in the late 1800s and continued into the 1930s. The structure was moved to the museum from Welham Plantat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24J9_overseers-house_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
The Overseer's House was moved to the Rural Life Museum from Welham Plantation in St. James Parish in 1970. It had been continuously occupied from its construction c. 1835 until the mid-1960s. Welham was sold as an industrial site (Marathon Oil) i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM248Z_bagatelle-kitchen_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
The kitchen was built c. 1840 on Bagatelle Plantation near Union, Louisiana. It served as a kitchen originally but was later converted to a schoolhouse that was run by 3 of the Tureaud sisters. The building was changed back to a kitchen upon being…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM248Y_smokehouse_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
The Smokehouse was originally a train depot at LSU's Alex Box Stadium where students boarded the train to New Orleans. It was moved to the museum in 1973 and adapted for use as a smokehouse. Smoking meat was a method of preserving pork, beef and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM248X_college-grove-baptist-church_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
The church was built in the Gothic Revival Style and exemplifies the style's basic elements: a central aisle, a three-sided apse, and modified lancet windows and doors. The windows are of painted, rather than stained, glass, which was a custom mor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM248T_18th-century-style-sugar-house_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
This building is a representation of a small eighteenth century sugar house employing the open-kettle process developed in the West Indies. It was built to show the style of old sugar houses pre-1820 when they were replaced by sugar factories. Thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM247P_tyrone-slave-cabin_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
Tyrone Plantation in Rapides Parish was the largest in the parish, supporting 3,200 acres of cotton fields. It was built in 1843 by George Mason Graham.In addition to plantation life, Graham worked with board members and founded a learning institu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM247O_single-pen-slave-cabin_Baton-Rouge-LA.html
This cabin, and the one across from it, were occupied by slaves on the Welham Plantation in the Antebellum Period.After the Civil War, they remained occupied by tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and finally plantation workers until the 1960's. These …