The Cherie Quarters Cabins were two single-story slave cabins which were the only two surviving of thirty or more original cabins on the River Lake (or Riverlake)

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. Wood-frame buildings supported by brick piers, they were listed on the

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in 1995. A similar cabin was the childhood home of African-American novelist

Ernest J. Gaines Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works we ...

. They were located about apart on Major Lane, about from its intersection with

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, and about south of the main house of the plantation. With

Riverlake Riverlake is a plantation and an antebellum mansion, located on the west bank of the False River in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, about south of New Roads, Louisiana. The house is a raised Creole-style plantation house built and modified ...

, the main plantation house, is a raised Creole-style built c.1820, which was listed on the National Register in 1983.

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