PARLANGE PLANTATION
Plantation — New Roads, Louisiana
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/parlange-plantation-new-roads-louisiana/

The 1750 Creole plantation still in the founding family.

A plantation in New Roads, Louisiana, Parlange Plantation is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1750 Creole plantation still in the founding family. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Parlange is the oldest working plantation — the c.1750 French colonial house on False River that's been in the same family since the Marquis de Ternant built it. The raised cottage on the brick basement, the bousillage walls of mud and moss and deer hair, the cypress upper floors — the finest and least altered French colonial plantation house in the country.
The plantation was the family's — the marquis's indigo, Claude's sugar and cotton, Virginie's remarriage to Parlange that gave it the name, and the 129 enslaved people in the 1860 census who built and worked it. The slave dwellings are gone; the house they built is still the family's.
The house is still lived in — still a working plantation, still in the family, still facing False River under the moss-draped trees. The file keeps the survival: the 1750 house, the family that's held it for 275 years, and the plantation that's never stopped being one.
Parlange is the archive's continuity file — the 1750 French colonial house, the family that's held it since, and the oldest working plantation in the United States.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Parlange is the archive's unbroken file — the oldest functioning plantation, the house built by enslaved labor that's still the family's, and the French colonial survival that's never been a museum.
A plantation that never stopped keeps its family — the file's suggestion being that Parlange's hold is the continuity: the 275 years in one family, the bousillage walls, and the plantation that's still working.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Reported a woman’s figure and a presence in the bedroom wing. A house with New Roads's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Parlange Plantation'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Parlange Plantation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlange_Plantation)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Dating to ~1750; continuously held by the family. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Parlange Plantation' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Parlange Plantation — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlange_Plantation

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