SE of Natchitoches on Cane River Rd., Natchitoches, Louisiana. County/parish: Natchitoches.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 14, 1973. NRIS 73000869.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Cherokee Plantation, also known as Emile Sompayrac Place and Murphy Place, is a former plantation and historic plantation house located in Natchez, Louisiana, near the city of Natchitoches. For many years this site was worked and maintained by enslaved African Americans. This location was part of the Côte Joyeuse (English: Joyous Coast) area which was home to the earliest French planters in Louisiana.
It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 14, 1973, for its architectural and agricultural historical significance.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73974034