File:Oakland Plantation, Route 494, Bermuda, Natchitoches Parish, LA HABS LA,35-BERM,2-17.tif
Plantation house of Oakland Plantation — on Cane River Lake and Route 494, in Bermuda near Natchitoches, in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
- Within the NPS Cane River National Heritage Area.
- Image: HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey of Louisiana.
- Prudhomme Family; Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor; Morgan, Nancy I, M, sponsor; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Tulane University, School of Architecture, sponsor; Cizek, Eugene D, faculty sponsor; Calloway, Deborah, transmitter; Boucher, Jack E, photographer; Buono, Jon A, photographer
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HABS LA,35-BERM,2-17
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- See also HABS No. LA-2-2 for additional documentation.
- 1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
- Significance: Oakland Plantation is one of the most important agrarian settings in the U.S. The main house and its many outbuildings create a rare opportunity to experience the cotton kingdom of Louisiana. The plantation was named Oakland by Jacques Alphonse Prudhomme after the Civil War. Prudhomm was born on the plantation in 1838. His mother, Suzanne Lise Metoyer, was born on Metoyer Plantation which adjoined Oakland on the south and represented another of the distinguished French Creole families...
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-87
- Survey number: HABS LA-1192
- Building/structure dates: 1821 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1880 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1927 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1935 Subsequent Work
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