{"id":3426,"slug":"san-francisco-plantation-garyville-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["San Francisco Plantation was built in 1856 — the 'steamboat Gothic' mansion on the Mississippi, its galleries and painted ceilings the most ornate of the river parishes, a sugar planter's fantasy in color and cypress.","The file's documented spine is the architecture's exuberance: a plantation house built like a riverboat, its steamboat-Gothic decoration the era's most extravagant, the sugar fortune's most colorful statement."]},{"heading":"The mansion's dead","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures in the mansion — the dead reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the plantation's own: the family and the enslaved whose labor ran the sugar house reportedly still in the painted rooms.","The plantation dead are the file's entity — a mansion of fantasy colors reportedly keeping its people, the decorated rooms holding everyone the plantation held."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["San Francisco is the archive's steamboat-Gothic file — the river's most ornate plantation house, keeping figures reportedly in its painted rooms. The documented architecture is the record; the dead are the lore of a mansion built like a dream.","A house built like a steamboat keeps its passengers — the file's suggestion being that the plantation's dead never disembarked from the fantasy."]}],"name":"San Francisco Plantation","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","PLANTATION","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The steamboat Gothic—1856’s most ornate.","full_desc":"San Francisco Plantation is a house in Garyville, Louisiana. The steamboat Gothic—1856’s most ornate. Its accounts name only a collective — the plantation dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Garyville","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.065727,"lon":-90.634729,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"LA2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3652,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. A house with Garyville's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'San Francisco Plantation' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3653,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the plantation dead. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'San Francisco Plantation'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The plantation dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1856 mansion is documented. San Francisco Plantation's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'San Francisco Plantation' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1856","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the mansion. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'San Francisco Plantation' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The plantation dead","claimed_identity":"The plantation dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the plantation dead in the file. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The plantation dead.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"San Francisco Plantation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"San Francisco Plantation House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Plantation_House","desc":"Historic house in Louisiana, United States","extract":"San Francisco Plantation House is a historic plantation house in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.  Built in 1853–1856, it is one of the most architecturally distinctive plantation houses in the American South.  It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.  It is on the property of the Garyville Refinery.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/San_Francisco_Plantaion_House_from_River_Road_Levee%2C_February_2021.jpg/960px-San_Francisco_Plantaion_House_from_River_Road_Levee%2C_February_2021.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":88,"lat":30.04913333,"lon":-90.60555556},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}