WHITE CASTLE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Louisiana authorities say the main building at the historic Nottoway Plantation is considered a “total loss” following a massive, destructive fire. According to ...

Before maple syrup was the go-to topping for stacks of pancakes and waffles, another old-school southern condiment was the ...

"The magic of the old houses of Louisiana"--Jacket. Text on verso facing each photograph. Trepagnier House, St. Charles Parish -- Ormond Plantation, St. Charles Parish -- Parlange Plantation, Pointe ...

With its 200 windows and 165 doors fashioned by enslaved craftsmen and put in place with enslaved labor, Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation was the South’s largest antebellum mansion, or “big house.” It ...

WHITE CASTLE, La. — Flames ripped through a massive mansion in Louisiana, destroying much of the historic structure that was used as a plantation house when it was completed in 1859, authorities said.

When Nottoway Plantation went up in flames last month, the destruction of a place rooted in the nation's history of enslavement sparked a range of reactions as some celebrated its demise and others ...

“Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851” by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Louisiana State University Press, 288 pages. I had long assumed that New ...