Desire Plantation House
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| Nearest city | Vacherie, Louisiana |
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| Coordinates | 29°56′39″N 90°41′32″W / 29.94417°N 90.69222°WCoordinates: 29°56′39″N 90°41′32″W / 29.94417°N 90.69222°W |
| Built | 1835 |
| Architectural style | French Creole |
| Governing body | Private |
| NRHP Reference # | 86001054[1] |
| Added to NRHP | 15 May 1986 |
Desire plantation, also known as Alcidesire,[2] is a historic Perique tobacco plantation built circa 1835, and located in Vacherie, Louisiana, Saint James Parish. The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
History
Desire LeBlanc, was born in 1831, and was the son of Dominique LeBlanc and Perosine Bourgeois. Desire married Algae Bourgeois in 1854 and had a child, Alcidie LeBlanc, in the same year. April 7, 1885, Alcide married Louis S. Webre, who bought the Bellevue (Belleview) Plantation located on Bayou Grosse Tete in Iberville, and had a son, Joseph M. Webre in 1888.[3]
Vacherie is also the home of other plantations such as the Oak Alley Plantation, Felicity Plantation, Laura Plantation, and the St. Joseph Plantation.
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ↑ Mary Ann Sternberg (1996/2001/ 2013 (Third edition)). "Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway". Louisiana State University Press. p. 285. Retrieved June 30, 2014. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Desire Plantation". p. 4. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
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