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- Louisiana plantation is on fire. [05/16/2025]
Posted on 05/17/2025 1:59:45 AM PDT by Libloather
The largest pre-Civil War mansion in all of the American South burned to the ground as a devastating fire ripped through the historic wooden structure built nearly 200 years ago.
Flames broke out at Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, Louisiana, just after 2 p.m. Thursday, drawing engines from 10 local fire departments who were helpless to stop the fire from burning up all 53,000 square feet of the iconic building.
Officials reported no injuries, though one Louisiana fire marshal said it was “the biggest fire” they’d seen in their entire career, ABC reported.
Local politicians in the Pelican State’s Iberville Parish lamented the unrecoverable loss of what was a beacon of a difficult chapter of American history.
“Nottoway was not only the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South but also a symbol of both the grandeur and deep complexities of our region’s past,” Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle said in a statement posted to Facebook.
“While its early history is undeniably tied to a time of great injustice, over the last several decades it evolved into a place of reflection, education, and dialogue,” Daigle added.
Nottoway was a sugar plantation operated and constructed by slave labor on behalf of John Hampden Randolph in 1859 for roughly $80,000 — equivalent to roughly $3 million in 2025.
The home became a museum in the 1980s opening its grand doors, 165 rooms and acre-plus of floorspace to visitors from around the world to engage in the challenging history embedded in its floorboards.
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Arson. Murder. Rape.
Dems like to say slaves built America, but that’s kind of hard to prove when everything slaves built has been burned to the ground.
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You’d think something this historic and valuable would have more fire protection?
Sorry to see it burn - it is apart of American history, which includes good, bad and ugly. I’ve seen some of these plantation homes and they are spectacular.
Lots of comments cheering this on.
You’re absolutely correct.
In terms of spectacular wealth, I don’t think this home compares with current mansions being built in the U.S. funded with money created from slaves toiling in Red China.
But the continued use of slave labor is on us, not our great, great, great grandparents so let’s just forget about what is happening right now.
There are still some good historians, and the profession seem ripe for a return to traditional norms. You are correct that even bad aspects of the past offer extraordinary artifacts. Sadly, we have now lost one of the grandest surviving plantation houses of the antebellum era.
IMO, we've relinquished a lot for the cause of progress and simplicity.
I visited Nottoway Plantation many years ago during a trip to New Orleans. I’ve got pictures in an album somewhere of the outside and inside. On that same visit, I toured Tezcuco Plantation. It was destroyed by fire on May 2, 2002, so my visit to both plantations took place about a year before.
The history of all mankind, people enslaving others. Europeans bought slaves from Africans who sold their slaves too them. So Black people enslaved their own people, whites enslaved their own people, Middle Eastern people are still enslaving people, as are the Chinese.
Owner of largest antebellum mansion in the South hopes to rebuild after devastating fire — as some celebrate its destruction
https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-news/owner-of-ruined-nottoway-plantation-in-la-hopes-to-rebuild/
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