Riverlake is a plantation and an

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mansion, located on the west bank of the False River in

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, about south of

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. The house is a raised Creole-style

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built and modified in c.1820, c.1840-45, and c.1890. The listing included two pigeonniers, believed to date from c.1820. With It was listed on the

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in 1983. The plantation is the birthplace of author

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, who played in its slave quarters area while a child. Two of those slave cabins survive, out of 30 or more, and are separately listed on the National Register as the Cherie Quarters Cabins. It is currently owned by the Calliet family.

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