Belle Alliance is an Italianate and Greek Revival plantation house in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, U.S.A. It is the namesake of the unincorporated community of Belle Alliance.[2][3]
The town and the plantation are located on the east bank of Bayou Lafourche, about 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Donaldsonville and about 0.62 miles (1.00 km) northeast of Belle Rose.
During the 1770s, this 7,000-acre (28 km2) plot was granted to Don Juan Vives, a physician and military officer of the Spanish government.[4] The Belle Alliance plantation house was built by Charles Anton Kock, a successful planter who used the forced labor of enslaved people to grow sugar and also owned the St. Emma Plantation around 1846.[5]
The plantation house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Leeper, Clare D'Artois (October 19, 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
- ^ National Register Staff (August 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Belle Alliance". National Park Service. Retrieved March 19, 2018. With sixteen photos from 1998.
- ^ "The Assumption Parish LAGenWeb Project: Belle Alliance Plantation". sites.rootsweb.com.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Belle Alliance Plantation - Donaldsonville, LA - 70346 Attractions, Tourist". www.discoverourtown.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
External links
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. LA-1272, "Belle Alliance Plantation, 7244 Highway 308 South, Donaldsonville vicinity, Assumption Parish, LA", 38 measured drawings
- Belle Alliance Plantation website
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