Last updated: September 20, 2024
Place
Changing Residents
Christy Hoover
Quick Facts
Location:
Natchez, LA
Amenities
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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
The structure provided shelter for diverse groups of plantation residents, including enslaved workers, the planter family, and plantation overseers. Historical records suggest the building originally served as a hospital for the enslaved laborers. A nurse, likely an enslaved woman, probably attended the hospital with visits from a doctor.
According to oral tradition, Matthew and Atala LeComte Hertzog moved in after the Main House was hurned by U.S. forces during the 1864 Red River Campaign. The Hospital was enlarged to create more living space. The Hertzogs moved into the rebuilt Main House in 1897.
From the late 1890s to the mid 1960s, overseers or farm managers including Edmund Delacorda, Henry Gallien, Leslie Gallien, and Telese Rachal lived here. A resident overseer was no longer needed by the mid-1960s.
Some communitied had a respected "healer" or traiteur who was also a midwife or la sage femme or la vielle femme. Agnes Wade was reportedly a midwife for the Magnolia Community.
"Dannial the Black Smith from Armsteads side – he became sick on Thursday... I had him locked up in one end of the Hospittle.. and was continued the medicine as prescribed by the Doctor... he lived the Monday night and died the 24th."
-Overseer W.B. Eddins, March 26, 1951
According to oral tradition, Matthew and Atala LeComte Hertzog moved in after the Main House was hurned by U.S. forces during the 1864 Red River Campaign. The Hospital was enlarged to create more living space. The Hertzogs moved into the rebuilt Main House in 1897.
From the late 1890s to the mid 1960s, overseers or farm managers including Edmund Delacorda, Henry Gallien, Leslie Gallien, and Telese Rachal lived here. A resident overseer was no longer needed by the mid-1960s.
Some communitied had a respected "healer" or traiteur who was also a midwife or la sage femme or la vielle femme. Agnes Wade was reportedly a midwife for the Magnolia Community.
"Dannial the Black Smith from Armsteads side – he became sick on Thursday... I had him locked up in one end of the Hospittle.. and was continued the medicine as prescribed by the Doctor... he lived the Monday night and died the 24th."
-Overseer W.B. Eddins, March 26, 1951