ORMOND
House — Destrehan, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/ormond-destrehan-louisiana/

The 1789 plantation—where the flag still flies.

A house in Destrehan, Louisiana, Ormond is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1789 plantation—where the flag still flies. The presences in its file go unnamed: the ormond dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Ormond is the vanished master's house — the 1789 Trepagnier plantation on the German Coast, the French Colonial that grew indigo and then sugar. The 1798 disappearance is the mystery — d'Trepagnier called from dinner by a Spanish official, never seen again. The slave uprising is the violence — the 1805 rebellion's leader whipped, the curse he allegedly laid on the house.
Butler renamed it — the 1805 purchase, the Ormonde Castle namesake from Ireland. The colombage is the construction — the brick-between-posts walls, the 1825 enlargement that made the present house. Ormond is the River Road plantation — the house that survived the mystery and the rebellion, the sugar estate on the German Coast.
The file keeps Ormond: the 1789 construction, the 1798 disappearance, the 1805 uprising, and the Butler name.
Ormond is the archive's Destrehan file — the plantation where the master vanished.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Ormond is the archive's Destrehan file — the plantation with the disappeared owner.
A house keeps its mystery — the file's suggestion being that Ormond's hold is the absence: the master who left dinner and never returned, the rebellion's curse, and the house that stayed.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures in the plantation. Ormond wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Ormond' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Ormond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Plantation_House)
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Ormond dead. Ormond in Destrehan, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Ormond'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Ormond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Plantation_House)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1789] The 1789 plantation is documented. Ormond's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Ormond'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The report keeps its place in the record.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Ormond — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Plantation_House

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