Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA
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
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
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
Location
Melrose, 31.60728, -92.97462
Source
Library of Congress
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