Ducros Plantation

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Ducros Plantation
File:DucrossWM.jpg
The east facade, seen from Old Schriever Hwy
Ducros Plantation is located in Louisiana
Ducros Plantation
Nearest city Schriever, Louisiana
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Built 1859-1860[2]
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 85002759[1]
Added to NRHP November 7, 1985

The Ducros Plantation (a.k.a. Old Jackson Plantation or Polmer Plantation) is a Southern plantation located in Schriever, Louisiana.

Location

The plantation is located in Schriever, Terrebone Parish, Louisiana.[3] It is two miles and a half away from Thibodaux.[4]

History

The land was granted by Spain to Thomas Villanueva Barroso.[5] It was then acquired by Mr Ducros.[6] In 1845, Ducros sold it to Colonel Van Perkins Winder.[5][7] Winder expanded the acreage by purchasing adjacent land formerly owned by Thomas Butler and smaller farms.[4]

The mansion was built by Winder's widow, Martha Grundy, who was Felix Grundy's daughter, shortly after her husband's death.[2][6] Construction began in 1859 and it was completed in 1860.[4] It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[3] Martha hired a Louisiana architect named Evens and told him to model the mansion on The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's plantation home in Nashville, Tennessee.[4] Indeed, she had grown up in Nashville.[4]

During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, the mansion was saved from a fire by Union General Godfrey Weitzel.[4] However, the outbuildings burned down.[4] Meanwhile, the fields were used as a camping ground by the Confederate States Army and the Unionists.[4] The Texas Rangers hoisted Bonnie Blue Flag, a flag of the Confederate States of America, on top of the house.[4]

In 1872, the plantation was purchased by two brothers, R.S. Woods and R.C. Woods, who were married to two sisters, Maggie Pugh and Fannie Pugh.[4] It became known as the Old Jackson Plantation.[8] It is two-story high, with a white facade.[2]

It was purchased by Samuel and Leon Polmer in 1909.[9] It was later inherited by Leon Polmer's sons, Irvin and Marvin.[9] In 1974, it was inherited by J.L. Fischman of New Orleans.[10]

The plantation is now owned by the Bourgeois family.[10] It was featured on If These Walls Could Talk, a television program on HGTV, in 2002.[10] Old wood with inscriptions about the secession of South Carolina and the presidential run of Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 have been found on the property.[10]

Heritage significance

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 7, 1985.[3]

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Register of Historic Places
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 The Louisiana Digital Library: Ducros Plantation
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60 [1]
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Louisiana Writers' Project, Louisiana: A Guide to the State, North American Book Distribution, 1 Jan 1941, p. 580 [2]
  7. ↑ Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268 [3]
  8. ↑ Old Jackson Plantation home, owned by a sugarcane planter. Schriever, Louisiana, Library of Congress
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities - Houma, Louisiana, Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Thad Angelloz, Local plantation lives on thanks to couple's restoration efforts, The Daily Comet, May 4, 2008
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