Old Plauche Place/Ducournau Plantation Marker
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kwashnak
N 31° 40.433 W 093° 01.317
15R E 497919 N 3504289
Marker located on LA 494 near Cedar Bend Road, Natchez, LA.
Waymark Code: WME6HY
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2012
Views: 4
Roadside Marker: Two sided.
Side 1:
This c. 1836 center hill Creole cottage is of poteaux sur sole, (hand-hewn pegged cypress sills on brick piers) and bousillage construction on the 1780s land grand to Claude Pierre Thomas Metoyer. The lower 68 acres given to a free woman of color, Coincoin, mother to his 10 Franco-African children, genesis to Isle Brevelle and builders of Melrose Plantation and St. Augustine Church. Pierre and his French wife, Marie Therese Buard, had three children who intermarried with the Prudhomme & Lambre families, genesis to the Cote Joyeuse. Pierre had 103 enslaved workers on this plantation in 1810. Pierre's granddaughter, Ophelia Prudhomme, acquired the land from her parents and married (twice widowed) the two sons of Gen. Jean Baptiste Plauche of the Battle of New Orleans. New Orleans cotton broker JB Plauche & Co. doing business with the
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Side 2
Prudhomme families and Magnolia Plantation. Her siblings owned Beau Fort, Cedar Bend, Cherokee and Oaklawn Plantations. Her grandfather Emmanuel Prudhomme built Oakland. Union and Confederate troops passed through the Old Plauche Place during the 1864 Red River Campaign, ascending March 30 and descending April 21 burning her baled cotton and gins, and removing her property. 78 of the 81 enslaved residents left with the advancing, and later retreating, Union troops. Her son Andrew Jackson Plauche and wife Estelle Ducournau left the place to the Ducournau family. As directed in the will of Andrew Jackson Plauche, Joe Plauche, a southern planter of color was a resident of the famed plantation from 1900 to 1946 employing returning veterans of World War I. In 1963 owner Jo Bryan Ducournau, whose father commissioned the "Good Darky" statue, renamed the place "Hope".
The Albert Family
Erected after 2008.
Marker Name: Old Plauche Place/Ducournau Plantation
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Building
Parish: Natchitoches
Link to more information:: Not listed
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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