Last updated: September 9, 2024
Place
Cooks Cabin to Fishing Camp
Christy Hoover
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The Cook's Cabin was originally located behind the Main House in an area known as "the yard." Records indicate that enslaved cooks, laundresses, and others lived in "the yard." Little is known of the enslaved cooks other than Venus who was sold in 1850. Elizabeth Jones, who had been enslaved, lived in the cabin in 1870. By 1920, Lee Llorens served as a cook and rented the cabin.
In the 1920s, the Cook's Cabin was moved to this field, near the Blacksmith's Shop, and rented out as a hunting and fishing camp. Plantation workers made extra cash cleaning and cooking fish, turtles, alligators, and other animals that were abundant in or near Cane River. The Prud'hommes dug a pond behind the camp and raised and sold shiners and minnows as bait.
Documents showing materials provided in the camp house and the rates for the house, grounds, boats and a tent.
In the 1920s, the Cook's Cabin was moved to this field, near the Blacksmith's Shop, and rented out as a hunting and fishing camp. Plantation workers made extra cash cleaning and cooking fish, turtles, alligators, and other animals that were abundant in or near Cane River. The Prud'hommes dug a pond behind the camp and raised and sold shiners and minnows as bait.
Documents showing materials provided in the camp house and the rates for the house, grounds, boats and a tent.