Melrose Plantation, Ghana House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Summary
2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place
Significance: Yucca Plantation, known since 1885 as Melrose Plantation, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by a remarkable family of freed slaves, and contains what is certainly the largest and most significant collection of buildings of Franco-African origin built by blacks, for use by blacks, in the United States. The Ghana House is a small one-room cabin of piece-sur-piece construction (log on log) with full dovetail joints at the corners. The structure doesn't have a ceiling; the space is open to the underside of the wood shake roofing.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1163
Survey number: HABS LA-2-69-F
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Tags
outbuildings
houses
african americans
domestic life
agriculture
melrose
plantation
melrose plantation
house
ghana house
highway
state highway
natchitoches
parish
natchitoches parish
natchitoches parish la
louisiana
images black history month
black history month
jack e boucher
cane river national heritage area commission
guy w carwille
historic american buildings survey
jerame p johnson
anne mason
nancy i morgan
yuliya penny
virginia barrett price
stephen m young
amy e zeringue
photo
18th century
architectural diagrams
cabin
library of congress
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor
Morgan, Nancy I, M, sponsor
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Mason, Anne, transmitter
Carwille, Guy W., faculty sponsor
Johnson, Jerame P., delineator
Penny, Yuliya B., delineator
Young, Stephen M., delineator
Zeringue, Amy E., delineator
Location
Melrose
,
31.60728, -92.97462
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html