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Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

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Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

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Summary

Drawings of the Slave Hospital (Yucca House) were donated to the collection & categorized under the name Yucca House. See HABS No. LA-2-69-C.
Significance: A former slave hospital in a Louisiana plantation; one of the earliest buildings built by blacks.
Survey number: HABS LA-2-69-A

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Morgan, Nancy I, M, sponsor
Cane River National Heritage Area Commission, sponsor
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Jones, Lester, photographer
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
McCown, Susan, historian
Hampson, Frank, photographer
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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

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