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Lakeport Plantation is a historic antebellum plantation house near Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi. Restored between 2003 and 2008, it is now a museum and Arkansas State University Heritage Site.
History
The mansion was built circa 1859 [2] for Lycurgus Johnson. It was designed in the Greek Revival architectural style.[3] The plantation boomed as cotton prices increased until the end of the Civil War, which freed the slaves on whom the plantation economy depended, and devastated the South.
See also
- List of plantations in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicot County, Arkansas
References
- ^ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ Matthew D. Therrell and David W. Stahle, "Tree-Ring Dating of An Arkansas Antebellum Plantation House," Tree-Ring Research 68(2012): 59-67; Thomas A. DeBlack, "A Garden in the Wilderness: The Johnsons and the Making of Lakeport Plantation" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1995).
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Lakeport Plantation" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
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