• Brick tenant quarters

    Cane River Creole

    National Historical Park Louisiana

Preservation

arch inside slave cabin
Archeological studies are important tools for meeting the park's mission of preservation and education. Subsurface Investigations of Oakland Plantation and Subsurface Investigations of Magnolia Plantation are useful for understanding the plantations' complex histories.

Did You Know?

Cotton

As textile mills in the north increased their demand for cotton, the use of enslaved
labor increased in cotton-growing plantations such as Oakland and Magnolia. In this way the industrial revolution in the northern states encouraged the expansion of the plantation labor systems of the south.