Crescent Plantation

Crescent is private property. The Dancy family completed the main house in 1855, though tradition dates a rear wing to about 1832 and the builder's name is lost. Enslaved people belonging to the Dancys are reported to have built it, with cypress cut at a sawmill on the place. In 1902 Annie Clark Ellis, a Black woman who inherited it, renamed it the Ellis Place and used it to house, employ and educate formerly enslaved people. Cedars once lined the approach; four remain, and the family burial ground has nearly vanished under a farm shed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 13 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 23 mi
  Louisiana's only World Heritage Site: six C-shaped ridges, a 43-acre plaza and Mound A, raised on Macon Ridge between about 1700 and 1100 BCE.

More markers nearby

• Burning of Richmond — 2.7 mi
• Scottland Plantation House — 2.9 mi
• Grant's Canal — 14 mi
• Freedmen Fight at Milliken's Bend — 14 mi