Richland Plantation is a
cotton plantation
Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tobacco ...
comprising a historic plantation house located at 7240 Azalea Street (
LA 422), about east of
Norwood, Louisiana
Norwood is a village in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 322 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Geography
Norwood is located in northwestern East Feliciana Paris ...
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Elias Norwood built the house in 1820 following the typical layout of the period with a large
central hall separating rooms on either side.
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The area comprising the mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places
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on March 28, 1979.
Skirmish at Richland Plantation
On January 30, 1865, a skirmish between US and Confederate Forces took place near Richland Plantation, as reported by Col. Willard Sayles ( 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry)."...The party moved south from Richland plantation, driving a party of twenty or more guerrillas, commanded by one Brown, a Confederate captain, to another camp on a small plantation owned by Alexander Ambreaux. Here they disappeared in the swamp, where it was entirely impracticable to follow them. Our party then retired two miles, to the Richland plantation, posted pickets, and encamped. During the night the guerrillas attempted to break through our pickets, were fired upon, and retreated with one man severely wounded."
See also
* List of plantations in Louisiana
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 ...
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References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
Federal architecture in Louisiana
Houses completed in 1820
Houses in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
National Register of Historic Places in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Central-passage houses
Plantation houses in Louisiana
1820 establishments in Louisiana
Cotton plantations in Louisiana
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