Posted on 07/14/2016 10:28:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Arson destroyed an antebellum plantation house that served as the governor’s mansion for nine months during the Civil War and damaged a museum less than a mile away on Thursday, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office said.
The Old Governor’s Mansion burned to the ground, but the fire at the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum apparently burned out fairly quickly, said Brant Thompson, chief deputy for the fire marshal’s office.
Museum workers found fire damage when they arrived for work Thursday morning, he said. …
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BLM inspired?????
If so, then also inspired by their Islamist friends, from ISIS by way of the “Palestinians”.
If the perp works for Yale they won’t prosecute him!
I don’t suppose there’s any chance of the person who did this being caught.
#BlackLightersMatter
Most probably.
LOL....LOL....LOL. :-(
It sure sounds like BLM.
BLM strikes again.
This is so sad. We go to Pass Christian every summer for a week. So many of the wonderful huge beautiful southern homes along the beach were destroyed during the hurricane. Hate to see any more of the south’s history destroyed.
If some people want to destroy history, I hope they do so to the extent that, we can say: slavery in America? Didn’t happen.
I see what you mean. Collapse the left’s narrative utterly.
Blacks destroying history.
This is lethal, illegal, immoral behavior. Big Brother is proud.
Don’t know but it’s certainly the work of sjws. They are also trying to get civil war museums closed and Lee Circle renamed.
“If some people want to destroy history, I hope they do so to the extent that, we can say: slavery in America? Didn’t happen.”
Given the rampant antisemitism in a lot of the hard left you could simply say there is less actual evidence of slavery than there is of the Holocaust. Make them acknowledge one to believe the other.
BLM = Taliban
Very sad. I looked very closely at buying this house to restore when it was on the market, I think it was around 1993-94. I decided it was going to be too much money to invest in a city that was spiraling downward economically. The house was cheap but it needed several hundred thousand to restore it properly. It was described in the related article as a “plantation house” but was actually a town house, in the middle of the old residential area of Opelousas. a year or so after I had looked at the house it was purchased buy a gentleman who restored and owned Chretien Point plantation house, about 11 miles from this one that burned. I don’t know if he was still the owner of the house that burned. Opelousas was once a thriving city but became infested with drug-abusers as the young educated people left to find work.
What Civil War? Never happened.
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