Allendale Plantation

Allendale held hundreds of people in bondage, and some are known by name. Harriet Jackson, born in 1812, cooked for the quarters and the big house. Stephen Jackson, born in 1817, drove the field gangs, and Maria Jackson, born in 1827, cut cane by hand. Valery Trahan, born in 1829, was bought shortly before the war to serve Henry Watkins Allen; Allen freed him as governor, and he returned to Allendale with his wife, Lavinia. In 1882 two Kahao brothers, who had worked there as laborers and overseers, bought the failed plantation, and their descendants run it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Capitol — 5.9 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Capitol Park Museum — 6.1 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Old State Capitol — 6.1 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 11 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Rosedale Road (LA Hwy. 986) — 2.6 mi
• Cohn High School — 4.2 mi
• Poplar Grove Plantation — 4.5 mi
• Sunrise — 4.7 mi