St. Emma

S of Donaldsonville, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. County/parish: Ascension.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 30, 1980. NRIS 80001695.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

St. Emma Plantation

St. Emma Plantation is a 13,000-acre (5,300 ha) former sugar plantation and house in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.

The plantation was the scene of a Civil War skirmish in the fall of 1862. The Greek Revival plantation house was owned by Charles A. Kock, a prominent sugar planter and slaveholder, between 1854 and 1869.

The house was listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73972919

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