Arson?
The now lost massive plantation house was made possible by sugar cultivation. Like cotton, sugar was a high value crop in the antebellum South. Both required the brutal heavy labor that slavery facilitated.
That’s a shame. It was a beautiful house.
Damn! DemonicRATS will go to no ends to erase their slave
Mongering past.
A tragic loss!
Glad I was able to spend some quality time there!
African lightning?
Nottoway Plantation sold to New Orleans hotel owner for $3.1M, plus other valuable considerations
From 2024, sold again...
Restored Nottoway Plantation Offers New Attractions
So the property went from an Australian billionaire to a local hotelier to a local lawyer...
A few years ago, the wife and I took a long weekend and toured a number of plantations and antebellum homes - I was particularly interested in the engineering of putting in upside down pyramid based into the muck to v=create a foundation that could shift w/o causing damage to the structure...also noted the slave shacks that a number still had preserved.
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.
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.
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/