Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County is once again welcoming visitors for inside tours after 18 months of restoration. Historians said the project breathed new life into the historic site and ...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Walnut Grove Plantation in Spartanburg County is once again welcoming visitors for inside tours after 18 months of restoration. Historians said the project breathed new life ...
A 170-year-old hotel in downtown Selma, Alabama, was set for demolition before preservationists realized the value of its ...
Gwinnett County is working to restore the historic Maguire-Livsey Big House, a landmark that transitioned from a plantation to a symbol of Black ownership.
From left, Tom Curran, Len Tantillo and Dean Leander Harding pose during a painting unveiling at the Fort Orange Club with Tantillo’s “Late for Practice” to raise funds for the Guild House restoration ...
Chad Livsey stands in front of the Maguire-Livsey Big House near Centerville and sees more than weathered wood and aging walls. He sees four generations of family history. “I see my childhood past in ...
Ventfort Hall, an 1893 mansion built for J.P. Morgan’s sister, was in disrepair. The living and the dead teamed up to save it. Ventfort Hall was the pinnacle of grandeur when it was built, but fell ...
“Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851” by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Louisiana State University Press, 288 pages. I had long assumed that New ...
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (WVUE) - A gravel road near the Cajun community of St. Martinville is shaded by massive oaks and pines planted two centuries ago. It’s a place where legend says a wedding in the ...
Many residents and visitors alike believe Louisiana to be a place where hauntings are common, as New Orleans is often considered the most haunted city in the U.S. Perhaps the deep history, tragic ...