Whitney Plantation is preserved in Whitney Plantation Historic District near Wallace, Louisiana, in St. John the Baptist Parish.
The French Creole raised-style main house built in 1803 is the most important in the state. In addition, the plantation has numerous extant outbuildings: a pigeonnier, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in Louisiana, and slave quarters. The complex includes three archaeological sites which have had varying degrees of exploration.
The 1884 Mialaret House, associated buildings and property were added by later purchase, and helps express the long working history of the plantation.
As the properties are held privately, they are not open for viewing. Some of the land is still planted in sugar cane.
The historic district was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Whitney Plantation is also one of 26 sites featured on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
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